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«Some quirk in human nature allows even the most unspeakable acts of evil to become banal within minutes, provided that they occur far enough away to pose no personal threat»
Author: Iris Chang
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Human nature,
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«The answers you get from literature depend on the questions you pose»
«People who don't vote have no line of credit with people who are elected and thus pose no threat to those who act against our interests.»
«It'd be different if he was staring somebody down with a loaded gun in his hand. But there doesn't seem to be any indications whatsoever that this man [Hussein] poses an immediate threat to anybody.»
«The coconut trees, lithe and graceful, crowd the beach like a minuet of slender elderly virgins adopting flippant poses.»
Author: William Manchester
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Historian,
Novelist)
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Keywords:
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«Ice cubes likely sell more alcohol for the distilling industry than attractive models in cheesecake poses. The inconspicuous ice cubes often hide the invisible sell - invisible, that is, to the conscious mind.»
Author: Wilson Bryan Key
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Keywords:
alcohol,
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«In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.»
«for the majority of instances where money is desired for the admitted object of blessing others, the real underlying motive is a love of popularity, and a desire to pose as a philanthropist or reformer....If your real desire is to do good, there is no need to wait for money before you do it; you can do it now, this very moment, and just where you are.»
«Skepticism: the mark and even the pose of the educated mind»
«I've posed nude for a photographer in the manner of Rodin's Thinker, but I merely looked constipated.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
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Critic,
Essayist,
Playwright)
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Keywords:
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Rodin,
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