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«We make mistakes the gratuitous blessings of heaven for the fruits of our industry»
«An original is a creation motivated by desire. Any reproduction of an originals motivated be necessity. It is marvellous that we are the only species that creates gratuitous forms. To create is divine, to reproduce is human.»
Author: Man Ray
(Film Director, Painter, Photographer)
| Keywords:
gratuitous, marvellous, motivated, originals, reproduce, reproduces, reproducing, reproduction, reproductions
«I'm not for gratuitous nudity, but if there's humor, I don't have a problem.»
«Any punishment that does not correct, that can merely rouse rebellion in whoever has to endure it, is a piece of gratuitous infamy which makes those who impose it more guilty in the eyes of humanity, good sense and reason, nay a hundred times more guilty than the victim on whom the punishment is inflicted.»
Author: Marquis De Sade
(Novelist)
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«You never see animals going through the absurd and often horrible fooleries of magic and religion. Dogs do not ritually urinate in the hope of persuading heaven to do the same and send down rain. Asses do not bray a liturgy to cloudless skies. Nor do cats attempt, by abstinence from cat's meat, to wheedle the feline spirits into benevolence. Only man behaves with such gratuitous folly. It is the price he has to pay for being intelligent but not, as yet, quite intelligent enough.»
Author: Aldous Huxley
(Critic, Novelist)
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«Among all forms of mistake, prophecy is the most gratuitous»
«It does me good to write a letter which is not a response to a demand, a gratuitous letter, so to speak, which has accumulated in me like the waters of a reservoir.»
Author: Henry Miller
(Author, Writer)
| Keywords:
accumulated, gratuitous, reservoir, reservoirs, so to speak
«Tolerance implies a gratuitous assumption of the inferiority of other faiths to one's own»
Author: Mahatma Gandhi
(Philosopher)
| About:
Tolerance
| Keywords:
assumption, faiths, gratuitous, implies, inferiority, tolerance
«To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life.»
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