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«Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.»
Author: Avram Noam Chomsky
(Activist, Linguist)
| About:
Language
| Keywords:
fixed, infinitely, interpretation, involves, varied
«More varied than any landscape was the landscape in the sky, with islands of gold and silver, peninsulas of apricot and rose against a background of many shades of turquoise and azure.»
Author: Cecil Beaton
(Fashion designer, Photographer)
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Against A, apricot, azure, Gold and Silver, islands, shades, The Peninsula, turquoise, varied
«Being varied is something I do instinctively and naturally. I feel a tremendous sense of accomplishment. Everything»
«Breast and bosoms I have known Of varied shapes and sizes From poignant disappointments To jubilant surprises»
«One can relish the varied idiocy of human action during a panic to the full, for, while it is a time of great tragedy, nothing is being lost but money»
Author: John Kenneth Galbraith
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Action
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human action, idiocy, relish, to the full, varied
«Once the visitor was told rather repetitively that this city was the melting pot; never before in history had so many people of such varied languages, customs, colors and culinary habits lived so amicably together. Although New York remains peaceful by most standards, this self-congratulation is now less often heard, since it was discovered some years ago that racial harmony depended unduly on the willingness of the blacks (and latterly the Puerto Ricans) to do for the other races the meanest jobs at the lowest wages and then to return to live by themselves in the worst slums.»
Author: John Kenneth Galbraith
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amicably, Black race, congratulation, culinary, customs, depended, languages, latterly, meanest, melting pot, Puerto, Puerto Rican, races, racial, repetitively, slum, slums, The Blacks, unduly, varied, visitor, wages, willingness
«Browning! Since Chaucer was alive and hale, / No man hath walked along our roads with step / So active, so inquiring eye, or tongue/ So varied in discourse.»
«REQUIEM, n. A mass for the dead which the minor poets assure us the winds sing o'er the graves of their favorites. Sometimes, by way of providing a varied entertainment, they sing a dirge.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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assure, dirge, favorites, Graves, minor, providing, Requiem, The graves, varied
«Life is perpetually creative because it contains in itself that surplus which ever overflows the boundaries of the immediate time and space, restlessly pursuing its adventure of expression in the varied forms of self-realization.»
Author: Rabindranath Tagore
(Essayist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Life
| Keywords:
boundaries, contains, immediate, overflows, perpetually, pursuing, realization, restlessly, self-realization, surplus, surpluses, time and space, varied
«There is no evil that does not promise inducements. Avarice promises money; luxury, a varied assortment of pleasures; ambition, a purple robe and applause. Vices tempt you by the rewards they offer.»
Author: Seneca
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applause, assortment, avarice, inducement, inducements, purple, rewards, robe, tempt, varied
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