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«I think [park] concerts tend to be, let's say, excessively accessible.»
«Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all.»
Author: John W. Gardner
(Secretary, Writer)
| About:
Politics
| Keywords:
conviction, diagnoses, diagnosis, excessively, extremism, identifiable, ills, ingredients, involves, prime, primed, villains
«When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy»
Author: Salman Rushdie
(Writer)
| About:
Action,
Pain,
Thinking
| Keywords:
excessively, finest, painful, remedy, The Finest
«In one case out of a hundred a point is excessively discussed because it is obscure; in the ninety-nine remaining it is obscure because it is excessively discussed.»
«She ordered a cup of tea, which proved excessively bad, and this gave her a sense that she was suffering in a romantic cause.»
«What fun it would be to be poor, as long as one was excessively poor! Anything in excess is most exhilarating»
Author: Jean Anouilh
(Dramatist, Playwright, Screenwriter)
| About:
Excess,
Poverty
| Keywords:
excessively, What fun
«Those, who indulge excessively in material and sensual pleasures approach death with fear and inevitably fall prey to the wrath of death.»
«They [Young People] have exalted notions, because they have not been humbled by life or learned its necessary limitations; moreover, their hopeful disposition makes them think themselves equal to great things / and that means having exalted notions. They would always rather do noble deeds than useful ones: Their lives are regulated more by moral feeling than by reasoning / all their mistakes are in the direction of doing things excessively and vehemently. They overdo everything / they love too much, hate too much, and the same with everything else.»
Author: Aristotle
(Philosopher, Physician, Scientist)
| Keywords:
disposition, equal to, exalted, excessively, hopeful, humbled, moreover, notions, overdo, overdoes, overdoing, overdone, regulated, vehemently
«Desire for approval and recognition is a healthy motive, but the desire to be acknowledged as better, stronger or more intelligent than a fellow being or fellow scholar easily leads to an excessively egoistic psychological adjustment, which may becom»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| About:
Approval
| Keywords:
acknowledged, adjustment, adjustments, approval, egoistic, excessively, motive, psychological, recognition, scholar
«To the excessively fearful the chief characteristic of power is its arbitrariness. Man had to gain enormously in confidence before he could conceive an all-powerful God who obeys his own laws.»
Author: Eric Hoffer
(Writer)
| Keywords:
all powerful, arbitrariness, enormously, excessively, obeys
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