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Letter "S" » savage
«Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are the natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted, and slightly savage if he is to sustain and complete an undertaking.»
Author: Jessamyn West
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Writer)
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About:
Writing
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Keywords:
complete,
family,
natural,
occupation,
savage,
savaged,
slightly,
society,
solitary,
sustain,
sustaining,
The Natural,
undertaking,
undertook,
uninterrupted,
writer
«The most savage controversies are about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way»
Author: Bertrand Russell
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Logician,
Philosopher)
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About:
Controversy
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Keywords:
as to,
controversies,
either,
evidence,
evidences,
in evidence,
matters,
no-good,
savage,
savaged
«We smile at the ignorance of the savage who cuts down the tree in order to reach its fruit; but the same blunder is made by every person who is over eager and impatient in the pursuit of pleasure.»
«The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way. Persecution is used in theology, not in arithmetic.»
«The savage bows down to idols of wood and stone, the civilized man to idols of flesh and blood»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
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Critic,
Essayist,
Playwright)
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Keywords:
blood,
bowing,
bows,
bow out,
civilize,
civilized,
civilizes,
civilizing,
flesh,
fleshed,
Flesh and Blood,
idols,
savage,
savaged,
stone,
take a bow,
wood
«The savage in man is never quite eradicated.»
«We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that a savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter.»
Author: Mark Twain
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Humorist,
Lecturer,
Writer)
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Keywords:
feeling,
For the,
gained,
have-not,
Know how,
lost,
made,
making known,
matter,
much as,
Over the Rainbow,
pried,
pry,
prying,
rainbow,
Rainbows,
reverent,
savage,
savaged,
The Rainbow