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«Like their personal lives, women's history is fragmented, interrupted; a shadow history of human beings whose existence has been shaped by the efforts and the demands of others.»
«If words are to enter men's minds and bear fruit, they must be the right words shaped cunningly to pass men's defenses and explode silently and effectually within their minds.»
Author: J. B. Phillips
| About:
Words
| Keywords:
cunningly, defenses, effectually, explode, shaped, silently
«History, although sometimes made up of the few acts of the great, is more often shaped by the many acts of the small.»
«In every block of marble I see a statue as plain as though it stood before me, shaped and perfect in attitude and action. I have only to hew away the rough walls that imprison the lovely apparition to reveal it to the other eyes as mine see it.»
Author: Michelangelo
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Art
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apparition, apparitions, block, hew, hewing, imprison, lovely, reveal, rough, shaped, stood, walls
«It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.»
Author: Robert Francis Kennedy
| About:
Courage,
History,
Injustice,
Inspiration,
Mankind
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«Man is ultimately not molded or shaped into humanness. The environment does not give him potentialities and capacities; he has them in inchoate or embryonic form, just exactly as he has embryonic arms and legs. And creativeness, spontaneity, selfhood»
Author: Abraham Maslow
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| About:
Mankind
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capacities, creativeness, embryonic, humanness, inchoate, potentialities, shaped
«It is not enough to understand, or to see clearly. The future will be shaped in the arena of human activity, by those willing to commit their minds and their bodies to the task.»
Author: Robert Francis Kennedy
| About:
Future
| Keywords:
activity, arena, bodies, clearly, commit, human activity, shaped, The Task
«I used to say: ''there is a God-shaped hole in me.'' For a long time I stressed the absence, the hole. Now I find it is the shape which has become more important.»
«It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped»
«How happy the lot of the mathematician! He is judged solely by his peers, and the standard is so high that no colleague or rival can ever win a reputation he does not deserve. No cashier writes a letter to the press complaining about the incomprehensibility of Modern Mathematics and comparing it unfavorably with the good old days when mathematicians were content to paper irregularly shaped rooms and fill bathtubs without closing the waste pipe.»
Author: W. H. Auden
(Dramatist, Editor, Poet)
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bathtub, cashier, cashiers, closing, colleague, incomprehensibility, irregularly, pipe, rival, shaped, the good old days, The Standard, unfavorably, waste paper, waste pipe
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