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«A place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively, wrenches it from itself, shapes it, renders it, loves it so radically that he remakes it in his own image.»
Author: Joan Didion
(Journalist, Novelist)
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claims, obsessively, radically, remade, remakes, remaking, remembers, renders, shapes, wrench, wrenches, wrenching
«False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.»
Author: Charles de Montesquieu
(Philosopher, Politician)
| About:
Happiness,
Sharing
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communicated, renders, sensible, stern
«In reality, in love there is a permanent suffering which joy neutralizes, renders virtual, delays, but which can at any moment become what it would have become long earlier if one had not obtained what one wanted, atrocious»
Author: Marcel Proust
(Author, Novelist)
| About:
Joy,
Love
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atrocious, delays, earlier, in reality, neutralize, neutralized, neutralizes, neutralizing, obtained, renders, virtual, virtual reality
«If the divorced are remarried civilly, they find themselves in a situation that objectively contravenes God's law. Consequently, they cannot receive Holy Communion as long as this situation persists. This norm is not at all a punishment or a discrimination against the divorced and remarried, but rather expresses an objective situation that of itself renders impossible the reception of Holy Communion: '. . . If these people were admitted to the Eucharist, the faithful would be led into error and confusion regarding the Church's teaching about the indissolubility of marriage'.»
Author: Pope Benedict XVI
(Pope)
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admitted, civilly, Communion, consequently, discrimination, divorced, Eucharist, expresses, Holy Communion, norm, norms, objective, objectively, reception, receptions, regarding, renders
«All in all, punishment hardens and renders people more insensible; it concentrates; it increases the feeling of estrangement; it strengthens the power of resistance.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
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all in, all in all, concentrates, estrangement, hardening, hardens, increases, insensible, in all, punishment, renders, resistance, strengthens
«It is weakness rather than wickedness which renders men unfit to be trusted with unlimited power»
«As I give thought to the matter, I find four causes for the apparent misery of old age; first it withdraws us from active accomplishments; second, it renders the body less powerful; third, it deprives us of almost all forms of enjoyment; fourth, it»
Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero
(Lawyer, Orator, Scholar, Statesman, Writer)
| About:
Misery,
Past
| Keywords:
accomplishments, almost all, apparent, deprives, enjoyment, fourth, renders, Second Thoughts, the matter, withdraws
«I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably applied, but to be forever discharging them, right or wrong, hit or miss, renders conversation insipid and vulgar.»
Author: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
| About:
Quotations
| Keywords:
amiss, applied, aptly, be amiss, discharged, discharges, discharging, hit-or-miss, insipid, proverb, reasonably, renders, Right or Wrong, vulgar
«For among other evils caused by being disarmed, it renders you contemptible; which is one of those disgraceful things which a prince must guard against»
Author: Niccolo Machiavelli
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caused, contemptible, disarmed, disgraceful, guard, prince, renders
«He falsifies who renders a verse just as it looks»
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