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«An amateur is someone who supports himself with outside jobs which enable him to paint. A professional is someone whose wife works to enable him to paint.»
Author: Ben Shahn
| About:
Painting,
Profession and professionals
| Keywords:
amateur, enable, jobs, professional, supports
«Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports.»
«I doubt that we Americans can come to terms with our money neuroses without understanding the more florid pathology of the very rich for it is our envy and admiration of the rich that supports their habit and keeps us hooked ourselves»
Author: Philip Slater
(Actor, Businessman, Merchant, Professor, Screenwriter, Sociologist, Spiritual mentor)
| About:
America and Americans,
Money
| Keywords:
florid, hooked, pathology, supports
«False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports»
Author: Richard Burton
(Actor)
| About:
Friendship
| Keywords:
animation, decays, embraces, ivy, ruins, supports
«Human beings are compelled to live within a lie, but they can be compelled to do so only because they are in fact capable of living in this way. Therefore not only does the system alienate humanity, but at the same time alienated humanity supports this system as its own involuntary master plan, as a degenerate image of its own degeneration, as a record of people's own failure as individuals.»
Author: Vaclav Havel
(Playwright, President)
| Keywords:
alienate, alienated, compelled, degenerate, degeneration, involuntary, supports, support system, the system
«In order to be happy we require all kinds of supports to our self-esteem. We are human beings, therefore human beings are the purpose of god's creation»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Happiness,
Religion,
Self-esteem
| Keywords:
self esteem, supports
«Science can teach us, and I think our own hearts can teach us, no longer to look around for imaginary supports, no longer to invent allies in the sky, but rather to look to our own efforts here below to make this world a fit place to live in, instead»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Heart,
Science,
Teachers and teaching
| Keywords:
allies, below, efforts, fit, imaginary, invent, look to, supports
«It is all a question of sensitiveness. Brute force and overbearing may make a terrific effect. But in the end, that which lives by delicate sensitiveness. If it were a question of brute force, not a single human baby would survive for a fortnight. It is the grass of the field, most frail of all things, that supports all life all the time. But for the green grass, no empire would rise, no man would eat bread: for grain is grass; and Hercules or Napoleon or Henry Ford would alike be denied existence.»
Author: D.H. Lawrence
(Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
brute, force field, ford, fortnight, frail, Green Grass, Henry, Henry Ford, Henry V, Hercules, napoleon, overbear, overbearing, overborne, sensitiveness, supports, terrific
«Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life; it supports them all, lends strength to them all ambition, cruelty, avarice, revenge, are all founded on lust.»
«Oats. A grain, which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people.»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
England, grain, horses, people of England, Scotland, supports
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