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«It is on the whole probably that we continually dream, but that consciousness makes such a noise that we do not hear it.»
«On the whole, age comes more gently to those who have some doorway into an abstract world-art, or philosophy, or learning-regions where the years are scarcely noticed and the young and old can meet in a pale truthful light»
Author: Freya Stark
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Keywords:
abstract,
abstract art,
doorway,
doorways,
gently,
noticed,
on the whole,
pale,
regions,
scarcely,
truthful
«Most beautiful dumb girls think they are smart and get away with it, because other people, on the whole, aren't much smarter.»
«More persons, on the whole, are humbugged by believing in nothing, than by believing too much»
«One of the most important lessons that experience teaches is that, on the whole, success depends more upon character than upon either intellect or fortune»
Author: William Edward Hartpole Lecky
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Essayist,
Historian)
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About:
Character,
Experience,
Success
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Keywords:
character,
depends,
either,
fortune,
intellect,
lessons,
on the whole,
teaches,
The Fortunes
«Institutions -- government, churches, industries, and the like -- have properly no other function than to contribute to human freedom; and in so far as they fail, on the whole, to perform this function, they are wrong and need reconstruction.»
«From the moment of birth, when the stone-age baby confronts the twentieth-century mother, the baby is subjected to these forces of violence, called love, as its mother and father have been, and their parents and their parents before them. These forces are mainly concerned with destroying most of its potentialities. This enterprise is on the whole successful.»
Author: R. D. Laing
(
psychiatrist)
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Keywords:
confronts,
destroying,
enterprise,
mainly,
Mother The,
on the whole,
potentialities,
potentiality,
subjected,
twentieth,
twentieths,
twentieth century
«I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores as in these United States. No man can form an adequate idea of the real meaning of the word, without coming here.»
«I have found little that is ''good'' about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of them are trash, no matter whether they publicly subscribe to this or that ethical doctrine or to none at all. That is something that you cannot say aloud, or perhaps even think.»
Author: Sigmund Freud
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Founder)
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Keywords:
aloud,
beings,
doctrine,
ethical,
human beings,
on the whole,
publicly,
subscribe,
subscribed,
subscribe to,
subscribing,
thinking aloud,
trash,
trashed,
Trashing
«On the whole, I'd rather be in Philidelphia.»