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«Common-sense is part of the home-made ideology of those who have been deprived of fundamental learning, of those who have been kept ignorant. This ideology is compounded from different sources: items that have survived from religion, items of empirical knowledge, items of protective skepticism, items culled for comfort from the superficial learning that is supplied. But the point is that common-sense can never teach itself, can never advance beyond its own limits, for as soon as the lack of fundamental learning has been made good, all items become questionable and the whole function of common-sense is destroyed. Common-sense can only exist as a category insofar as it can be distinguished from the spirit of inquiry, from philosophy.»
Author: John Berger
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Painter)
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Keywords:
Beyond the Limits,
category,
compounded,
cull,
culled,
deprived,
deprived of,
distinguished,
empirical,
ideology,
inquiry,
item,
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questionable,
skepticism,
sources,
superficial,
supplied,
survived
«And when I was present with you, and wanted, I was chargeable to no man: for that which was lacking to me the brethren which came from Macedonia supplied: and in all things I have kept myself from being burdensome unto you, and so will I keep myself.»
«Martyr: They stood before the altar and supplied - The fire themselves in which their fat was fried»
«AIR, n. A nutritious substance supplied by a bountiful Providence for the fattening of the poor.»
«GNOME, n. In North-European mythology, a dwarfish imp inhabiting the interior parts of the earth and having special custody of mineral treasures. Bjorsen, who died in 1765, says gnomes were common enough in the southern parts of Sweden in his boyhood, and he frequently saw them scampering on the hills in the evening twilight. Ludwig Binkerhoof saw three as recently as 1792, in the Black Forest, and Sneddeker avers that in 1803 they drove a party of miners out of a Silesian mine. Basing our computations upon data supplied by these statements, we find that the gnomes were probably extinct as early as 1764.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
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Editor,
Journalist,
Writer)
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Keywords:
aver,
Basing,
Black Forest,
boyhood,
computation,
computations,
custody,
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drove,
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gnome,
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Interior,
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North,
Party of,
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scamper,
scampering,
southern,
statements,
supplied,
Sweden,
The Black,
three parts,
treasures,
twilight
«I am glad of the coming of Stephanas and Fortunatus and Achaicus: for that which was lacking on your part they have supplied.»
«Isn't that the problem? That women have been swindled for centuries into substituting adornment for love, fashion (as it were) for passion? All the cosmetics names seemed obscenely obvious to me in their promises of sexual bliss. They were all firming or uplifting or invigorating. They made you tingle. Or glow. Or feel young. They were prepared with hormones or placentas or royal jelly. All the juice and joy missing in the lives of these women were to be supplied by the contents of jars and bottles. No wonder they would spend twenty dollars for an ounce of face makeup or thirty for a half-ounce of hormone cream. What price bliss? What price sexual ecstasy?»
Author: Erica Jong
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Keywords:
adornment,
adornments,
as it were,
bottles,
contents,
cosmetic,
cosmetics,
cream,
ecstasy,
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sexual love,
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uplift,
uplifted,
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uplifts,
wonder woman
«Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt.»
«Persons grouped around a fire or candle for warmth or light are less able to pursue independent thoughts, or even tasks, than people supplied with electric light. In the same way, the social and educational patterns latent in automation are those of self-employment and artistic autonomy.»
Author: Marshall McLuhan
(
Educator,
Social Reformer,
Writer)
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Keywords:
artistic,
automation,
autonomy,
educational,
electric,
electric fire,
electric light,
employment,
grouped,
latent,
patterns,
supplied,
supplied with,
warmth
«In the world I fill up a place, which may be better supplied when I have made it empty»