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«Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessaries»
Author: John Lothrop Motley
(Diplomat, Historian)
| About:
Luxury
| Keywords:
dispense, dispensed, dispenses, dispense with, dispensing, luxuries, necessaries
«We had better dispense with the personification of evil, because it leads, all too easily, to the most dangerous kind of war: religious war.»
Author: Konrad Lorenz
(Zoologist)
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all too, dispense, dispense with, had better, personification, religious war
«There exists a black kingdom which the eyes of man avoid because its landscape fails signally to flatter them. This darkness, which he imagines he can dispense with in describing the light, is error with its unknown characteristics. Error is certainty's constant companion. Error is the corollary of evidence. And anything said about truth may equally well be said about error: the delusion will be no greater.»
Author: Louis Aragon
(Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
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black light, characteristics, companion, corollary, delusion, dispense, dispense with, flatter, imagines, landscape, signally, There exists
«Anybody who has been seriously engaged is scientific work of any kind realizes that over the entrance to the gates of the temple of science are written the words: 'Ye must have faith.' It is a quality which the scientist cannot dispense with.»
Author: Max Planck
(Physicist)
| About:
Science
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dispense, dispense with, engaged, entrance, Entrance to, Gates, realizes, scientist, temple, Temple of, The Entrance, The temple
«To dispense with ceremony is the most delicate mode of conferring a compliment»
Author: Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
| About:
Compliments
| Keywords:
ceremony, conferring, dispense with, mode
«I cannot forgive Descartes. In all his philosophy he would have been quite willing to dispense with God. But he had to make Him give a fillip to set the world in motion; beyond this, he has no further need of God.»
Author: Blaise Pascal
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist)
| About:
God,
Philosophy
| Keywords:
Descartes, dispense with, fillip
«Economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it»
«To my great-grandfather I owed the advice to dispense with the education of the schools and have good masters at home instead - and to realize that no expense should be grudged for this purpose»
Author: Marcus Aurelius
| About:
Family
| Keywords:
dispense with, grandfather, great grandfather, grudged, owed
«If Nature denies eternity to beings, it follows that their destruction is one of her laws. Now, once we observe that destruction is so useful to her that she absolutely cannot dispense with it from this moment onward the idea of annihilation which we attach to death ceases to be real what we call the end of the living animal is no longer a true finish, but a simple transformation, a transmutation of matter. According to these irrefutable principles, death is hence no more than a change of form, an imperceptible passage from one existence into another.»
Author: Marquis De Sade
(Novelist)
| Keywords:
annihilation, attach, attach to, ceases, denies, destruction, dispense, dispensed, dispenses, dispense with, dispensing, finish, hence, imperceptible, irrefutable, observe, onward, passage, transformation, transformations, transmutation
«None but an armed nation can dispense with a standing army»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| Keywords:
armed, army, dispense, dispensed, dispenses, dispense with, dispensing
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