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Letter "R" » resort
«Libel actions, when we look at them in perspective, are an ornament of a civilized society. They have replaced, after all, at least in most cases, a resort to weapons in defense of a reputation.»
«Litigation should be a last resort, not a knee-jerk reflex.»
Author: Irving S. Shapiro
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Keywords:
jerk,
jerks,
knee-jerk reflex,
knee,
knee jerk,
last resort,
litigation,
reflex,
reflexes,
resort,
The Last Resort
«Journalists are like whores; as high as their ideals may be, they still have to resort to tricks to make money»
«I believe You are the imperishable, the Supreme to be realized. You are the ultimate resort of the universe.»
«PATRIOTISM, n. Combustible rubbish read to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name. In Dr. Johnson's famous dictionary patriotism is defined as the last resort of a scoundrel. With all due respect to an enlightened but inferior lexicographer I beg to submit that it is the first.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(
Editor,
Journalist,
Writer)
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Keywords:
ambitious,
beg,
Beg to,
combustible,
dictionary,
Dr.,
Dr. Johnson,
Dr,
Dr Johnson,
enlightened,
famous,
illuminate,
inferior,
Johnson,
last name,
last resort,
resort,
respect to,
rubbish,
scoundrel,
submit,
The Last Resort,
torch,
With all due respect
«I have treated many hundreds of patients. Among [those] in the second half of life-that is to say, over 35-there has not been one whose problem in the last resort was not that of finding a religious outlook on life.»
Author: Carl Gustav Jung
(
Founder,
Psychologist)
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Keywords:
hundreds,
last half,
last resort,
outlook,
patients,
religious,
resort,
resorted,
resorting,
second half,
that is to say,
The Last Resort,
The Second,
treated
«Judgments, value judgments concerning life, for or against, can in the last resort never be true: they possess value only as symptoms, they come into consideration only as symptoms - in themselves such judgments are stupidities»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(
Critic,
Philosopher,
Scholar)
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About:
Judgement,
Value
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Keywords:
concerning,
consideration,
judgments,
Last Judgment,
last resort,
resort,
stupidities,
symptoms,
The Last Judgment,
The Last Resort,
value judgment
«Military pay has been allowed to lag behind to the point where career enlisted men with families to feed have been forced to resort to food stamps.»
«It is to secure our rights that we resort to government at all.»
«It is the essence of truth that it is never excessive. Why should it exaggerate? There is that which should be destroyed and that which should be simply illuminated and studied. How great is the force of benevolent and searching examination! We must not resort to the flame where only light is required.»
Author: Victor Hugo
(
Dramatist,
Novelist,
Poet)
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Keywords:
benevolent,
exaggerate,
exaggerates,
exaggerating,
examination,
excessive,
flame,
illuminate,
illuminated,
required,
resort,
resort to,
searching,
studied,
The Flame,
The Force