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«The news is staged, anticipated, reported, analyzed until all interest is wrung from it and abandoned for some new novelty.»
Author: Thomas Griffith
| About:
Journalism,
Media
| Keywords:
abandoned, analyzed, anticipated, For some, novelty, reported, staged, The News, Wringing, wrings, wrung
«There is no more difficult art to acquire than the art of observation, and for some men it is quite as difficult to record an observation in brief and plain language.»
Author: William Osler
(Physician)
| About:
Art,
Language
| Keywords:
acquire, brief, For some, in brief, observation, plain, plain language, record
«So in Europe, we had empires. Everyone had them - France and Spain and Britain and Turkey! The Ottoman Empire, full of furniture for some reason. And the Austro-Hungarian Empire, famous for fuck all! Yes, all they did was slowly collapse like a flan in a cupboard.»
«The need to be right all the time is the biggest bar to new ideas. It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong than to be always right by having no ideas at all.»
«The child thinks of growing old as an almost obscene calamity, which for some mysterious reason will never happen to itself. All who have passed the age of thirty are joyless grotesques, endlessly fussing about things of no importance and staying alive without, so far as the child can see, having anything to live for. Only child life is real life.»
Author: George Orwell
(Essayist, Novelist)
| Keywords:
age of, Age of Reason, calamity, endlessly, For some, fussed, fussing, grotesques, growing, importance, joyless, mysterious, obscene, passed, real life, so far, staying, The Age, thirty, without reasoning
«There have been times when I have deliberately tried to take my life... I think I must have been crying for some attention.»
«There shall be wings! If the accomplishment be not for me, 'tis for some other.»
Author: Leonardo da Vinci
(Architect, Engineer, Painter, Sculptor)
| Keywords:
accomplishment, For some, not for, some other, Tis, wings
«The more we take the less we become,The fortune of one man means less for some»
«The distinction between children and adults, while probably useful for some purposes, is at bottom a specious one, I feel. There are only individual egos, crazy for love.»
Author: Niccolo Machiavelli
| About:
Adulthood,
Children
| Keywords:
adults, at bottom, distinction, egos, For some, purposes, specious
«Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man's wife, but if it is obvious for some reason that he would like to do so, and would do so if he could, he is no less guilty than if he was caught in the act.»
Author: Saint Augustine
(Bishop, Theologian)
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adulteries, adultery, caught, Caught in The Act, For some, for some reason, guilty, obvious
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