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«There are children playing in the streets who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago.»
Author: J. Robert Oppenheimer
(Physicist)
| Keywords:
long ago, modes, physics, sensory, The Streets
«A seller-sovereign economy includes sellers who are monopolistic or oligopolistic without being confronted by the ultimate consumers who are organized in monopsonistic or ologopsonistic modes. It is an economy where enormous skill, artifice, and resources are used in getting consumers to buy what the sellers want to sell, notwithstanding the availability of more efficient, safe, economical, durable, and effective alternatives, including that of buying nothing at all.»
Author: Ralph Nader
(Activist, Lawyer)
| Keywords:
artifice, artifices, availability, durable, efficient, includes, modes, monopolistic, Sellers
«I watched my foolish heart expand / In the lazy glow of benevolence, / O'er the various modes of man's belief.»
Author: Robert Browning
(Poet)
| Keywords:
benevolence, expand, glow, modes, My Foolish Heart, various, watched
«Science and art may invent splendid modes of illuminating the apartments of the opulent: but these are all poor and worthless compared with the common light which the sun sends into all our windows, which pours freely, impartially over hill and valley, which kindles daily the eastern and western sky; and so the common lights of reason, and conscience, and love, are of more worth and dignity than the rare endowments which give celebrity to a few.»
Author: William Ellery Channing
(Author, Clergyman)
| Keywords:
apartments, celebrity, eastern, endowment, endowments, illuminating, impartially, kindles, modes, opulent, sends, The Apartments, valley, worthless
«Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.»
Author: Aristotle
(Philosopher, Physician, Scientist)
| Keywords:
forms of government, make for, modes
«For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, His can't be wrong whose life is in the right.»
«There are two modes of establishing our reputation: to be praised by honest men, and to be abused by rogues. It is best, however, to secure the former, because it will invariably be accompanied by the latter.»
Author: Charles Caleb Colton
| About:
Praise,
Reputation
| Keywords:
abused, abusing, accompanied, accompanying, Establishing, former, invariably, latter, modes, praised, rogues, secure
«Technique is really personality. That is the reason why the artist cannot teach it, why the pupil cannot learn it, and why the aesthetic critic can understand it. To the great poet, there is only one method of music -- his own. To the great painter, there is only one manner of painting -- that which he himself employs. The aesthetic critic, and the aesthetic critic alone, can appreciate all forms and all modes. It is to him that Art makes her appeal.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
aesthetic, appeal, appreciate, artist, art critic, critic, employing, employs, forms, manner, method, modes, our critics, painter, painting, personality, poet, pupil, technique, The Art of Reasoning, The Great, The Technique, the Techniques
«The mind is bound by the three dispositions - the three modes of Maya.»
«In the final analysis, ''style'' is art. And art is nothing more or less than various modes of stylized, dehumanized representation.»
Author: Susan Sontag
(Activist, Critic, Writer)
| Keywords:
dehumanized, Final Analysis, in the final analysis, modes, more or less, stylized, stylizing
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