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«Language can only deal meaningfully with a special, restricted segment of reality. The rest, and it is presumably the much larger part, is silence.»
Author: George Steiner
(Critic, Educator, Scholar)
| Keywords:
presumably, restrict, restricted, segment, segments
«School divides life into two segments, which are increasingly of comparable length. As much as anything else, schooling implies custodial care for persons who are declared undesirable elsewhere by the simple fact that a school has been built to serve them.»
Author: Ivan Illich
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comparable, custodial, declared, divides, elsewhere, implies, increasingly, most undesirable, schooling, segment, segments, undesirable
«A novel that does not uncover a hitherto unknown segment of existence is immoral. Knowledge is the novel's only morality.»
Author: Milan Kundera
(Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
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hitherto, immoral, novel, segment, segments, the novel, uncover, uncovering, uncovers
«Adults are interested if you don't play down to the little 2 or 3 year olds or talk down. I don't believe in talking down to children. I don't believe in talking down to any certain segment. I like to kind of just talk in a general way to the audience. Children are always reaching.»
Author: Walt Disney
(Producer)
| Keywords:
adults, general interest, Olds, play down, reaching, segment, segments, talk down
«It is not, truly speaking, the labor that is divided; but the men: divided into mere segments of men --broken into small fragments and crumbs of life, so that all the little piece of intelligence that is left in a man is not enough to make a pin, or a nail, but exhausts itself in making the point of a pin or the head of a nail.»
Author: John Ruskin
(Critic, Writer)
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breaking point, crumbs, exhausts, fragments, nail, segment, segments
«Television is just one more facet of that considerable segment of our society that never had any standard but the soft buck.»
Author: Raymond Chandler
(Writer)
| About:
Television
| Keywords:
considerable, facet, facets, segment, segments
«It (Unemployment Insurance) provides prepaid vacations for a segment of our country which has made it a way of life»
Author: Ronald Reagan
(President)
| About:
Vacation
| Keywords:
insurance, prepaid, segment, segments, vacations, way of life
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