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Letter "P" » perverts
«Art for art's sake, with no purpose, for any purpose perverts art. But art achieves a purpose which is not its own.»
«I enjoy talking to you more than anybody else because I never feel I am giving myself away and so can admit to shady, dishonest, crawling, cowardly, unjust, arrogant, snobbish, lecherous, perverted and generally shameful feelings that I don't want anybody else to know about; but most of all because I am always on the verge of violent laughter when talking to you.If you were here, I keep thinking, we would spend the time in talk and drink and smoke and I should be laughing a lot of the time, and I should be enjoying myself a lot of the time.»
«Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms (of government) those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
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Author,
President)
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Keywords:
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tyrannies,
tyranny
«All failures - neurotics, psychotics, criminals, drunkards, problem children, suicides, perverts, and prostitutes - are failures because they are lacking in social interest»
«It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.»
Author: Denis Diderot
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Keywords:
accuse,
accuses,
accusing,
conventions,
despicable,
Human nature,
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The Accused,
the Convention,
the conventions
«My girlfriend said to me in bed last night' 'you're a pervert' I said, 'that's a big word for a girl of nine'.»
«Do not separate text from historical background. If you do, you will have perverted and subverted the Constitution, which can only end in a distorted, bastardized form of illegitimate government.»
Author: James Madison
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President)
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About:
Constitution,
Government
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Keywords:
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Background and,
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distorted,
historical,
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text
«I'd rather laugh in bed than do it. If I went to a lady of the night, I'd probably pay her to tell me jokes. Would that be perverted?»
«As selfishness and complaint pervert and cloud the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision»
Author: Helen Keller
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Author,
Educator)
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Keywords:
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complaint,
pervert,
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selfishness,
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sharpening,
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The Vision,
vision
«Christianity is the most perverted system that ever shone on man»