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Letter "P" » predilection
«The parrot holds its food for prim consumption as daintily as any debutante, [with] a predilection for pot roast, hashed-brown potatoes, duck skin, butter, hoisin sauce, sesame seed oil, bananas and human thumb.»
Author: Alexander Theroux
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Keywords:
banana,
bananas,
brown,
butter,
consumption,
daintily,
debutante,
duck,
hash,
hashed,
hoisin sauce,
parrot,
parrots,
potatoes,
pot roast,
predilection,
predilections,
prim,
roast,
Roast duck,
sauce,
sesame,
sesame seed,
thumb
«Man has such a predilection for systems and abstract deductions that he is ready to distort the truth intentionally, he is ready to deny the evidence of his senses only to justify his logic»
Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Novelist,
Writer)
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About:
Logic,
Mankind,
Truth
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Keywords:
abstract,
abstracted,
abstracting,
deductions,
deny,
distort,
evidence,
intentionally,
justify,
predilection,
predilections,
senses,
systems
«PREDILECTION, n. The preparatory stage of disillusion.»
«At the constitutional level where we work, 90 percent of any decision is emotional. The rational part of us supplies the reasons for supporting our predilections.»