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«To understand reality is not the same as to know about outward events. It is to perceive the essential nature of things. The best-informed man is not necessarily the wisest. Indeed there is a danger that precisely in the multiplicity of his knowledge he will lose sight of what is essential. But on the other hand, knowledge of an apparently trivial detail quite often makes it possible to see into the depth of things. And so the wise man will seek to acquire the best possible knowledge about events, but always without becoming dependent upon this knowledge. To recognize the»
Author: Dietrich Bonhoeffer
(Pastor, Theologian)
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apparently, dependent, depth, detail, informed, multiplicity, on the other hand, outward, perceive, trivial, wisest
«The enemy is like a woman, weak in face of opposition, but correspondingly strong when not opposed. In a quarrel with a man, it is natural for a woman to lose heart and run away when he faces up to her; on the other hand, if the man begins to be afraid and to give ground, her rage, vindictiveness and fury overflow and know no limit.»
Author: Saint Ignatius of Loyola
(Journalist, Writer)
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correspondingly, fury, No limit, on the other hand, overflow, run away, vindictiveness
«There are some men whom a staggering emotional shock, so far from making them mental invalids for life, seems, on the other hand, to awaken, to galvanize, to arouse into an almost incredible activity of soul.»
Author: William McFee
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awaken, galvanize, galvanizes, invalid, invalids, on the other hand, staggering
«Well, art is art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water! And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now, uh... Now you tell me what you know.»
Author: Groucho Marx
(Actor, Comedian, Singer)
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applesauce, Best Art, cranberries, cranberry, East, East Is East, East of, on the other hand, prune, pruned, prunes, pruning, rhubarb, stew, stewed, stewing, taste, Tell Me, West
«To God all things are beautiful, good, and right; human beings, on the other hand, deem some things right and others wrong. It would not be better if things happened to people just as they wish»
«War on the other hand is such a terrible thing, that no man, especially a Christian man, has the right to assume the responsibility of starting it.»
Author: Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
(Novelist, Philosopher, Thinker)
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War
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assume, Christian, especially, on the other hand, starting, terrible
«There are those who believe something, and therefore will tolerate nothing; and on the other hand, those who tolerate everything, because they believe nothing»
«The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar, and is shocked by the unexpected: the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition»
Author: W. H. Auden
(Dramatist, Editor, Poet)
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craves, impatient, on the other hand, repetition, shocked, tends, tends to, The Ear, the novel, unexpected
«Prose on certain occasions can bear a great deal of poetry; on the other hand, poetry sinks and swoons under a moderate weight of prose.»
Author: Walter Savage Landor
(Writer)
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Prose
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on the other hand, swoon, swooned, swooning, swoons
«There is something about a Republican that you can only stand him for so long; and on the other hand, there is something about a Democrat that you can't stand him quite that long.»
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