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«Among the virtues and vices that make up the British character, we have one vice, at least, that Americans ought to view with sympathy. For they appear to be the only people who share it with us. I mean our worship of the antique. I do not refer to beauty or even historical association. I refer to age, to a quantity of years.»
Author: William G. Golding
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Novelist,
Poet)
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Keywords:
antique,
antiques,
association,
British,
British people,
historical,
quantity,
refer,
the British,
with sympathy
«We do not go to bed in single pairs; even if we choose not to refer to them, we still drag there with us the cultural impedimenta of our social class, our parents lives, our bank balances, our sexual and emotional expectations, our whole biographies / all the bits and pieces of our unique existences.»
Author: Angela Carter
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Novelist,
Writer)
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Keywords:
balances,
biographies,
bits,
bits and pieces,
cultural,
drag,
go to bed,
impedimenta,
pairs,
refer,
single bed,
social class,
social classes
«True opinions can prevail only if the facts to which they refer are known; if they are not known, false ideas are just as effective as true ones, if not a little more effective»
«FOREORDINATION, n. This looks like an easy word to define, but when I consider that pious and learned theologians have spent long lives in explaining it, and written libraries to explain their explanations; when I remember the nations have been divided and bloody battles caused by the difference between foreordination and predestination, and that millions of treasure have been expended in the effort to prove and disprove its compatibility with freedom of the will and the efficacy of prayer, praise, and a religious life, --recalling these awful facts in the history of the word, I stand appalled before the mighty problem of its signification, abase my spiritual eyes, fearing to contemplate its portentous magnitude, reverently uncover and humbly refer it to His Eminence Cardinal Gibbons and His Grace Bishop Potter.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
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Editor,
Journalist,
Writer)
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Keywords:
abase,
abased,
abasing,
appalled,
compatibility,
contemplate,
disprove,
disproved,
disproving,
eminence,
expend,
expended,
expending,
explaining,
explanations,
fearing,
foreordination,
freedom of the will,
gibbon,
History of the,
humbly,
Libraries,
long-lived,
pious,
portentous,
potter,
predestination,
recalling,
refer,
religious freedom,
reverently,
signification,
theologian,
theologians,
The Mighty,
uncover
«To the extent math refers to reality, we are not certain; to the extent we are certain, math does not refer to reality.»
«As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.»
«I can't talk about Hollywood. It was a horror to me when I was there and it's a horror to look back on. I can't imagine how I did it. When I got away from it I couldn't even refer to the place by name. ''Out there,'' I called it.»