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Letter "T" » tames
«Patience is passion tamed.»
«Maybe some women aren't meant to be tamed. Maybe they just need to run free til they find someone just as wild to run with them.»
«We defend ourself with descriptions and tame the world by generalizing»
Author: Iris Murdoch
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Novelist,
Philosopher)
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Keywords:
defend,
descriptions,
generalize,
generalized,
generalizes,
generalizing,
tame,
tamer,
tames,
tamest,
taming
«Let us dedicate ourselves to what the Greeks wrote so many years ago: to tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world.»
«In most modern instances, interpretation amounts to the philistine refusal to leave the work of art alone. Real art has the capacity to make us nervous. By reducing the work of art to its content and then interpreting that, one tames the work of art. Interpretation makes art manageable, conformable.»
Author: Susan Sontag
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Activist,
Critic,
Writer)
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Keywords:
amounts,
conformable,
instances,
interpretation,
interpreting,
manageable,
nervous,
Philistine,
reducing,
refusal,
tames
«You are responsible, forever, for what you have tamed. You are responsible for your rose.»
«Prolonged endurance tames the bold.»
«To do something, say something, see something, before anybody else - these are things that confer a pleasure compared with which other pleasures are tame and commonplace, other cheap and trivial»
Author: Mark Twain
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Humorist,
Lecturer,
Writer)
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About:
Action,
Pleasure
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Keywords:
cheap,
commonplace,
commonplaces,
compared,
confer,
conferring,
confer with,
pleasures,
say something,
tame,
tamer,
tames,
tamest,
taming,
trivial
«Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion be your tutor: suit the action to the word, the word to the action.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(
Dramatist,
Playwright,
Poet)
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About:
Action
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Keywords:
discretion,
suit,
tame,
tamer,
tames,
tamest,
taming,
the Action,
The Word,
tutor,
tutored,
tutors
«Youth is full of sport, age's breath is short; youth is nimble, age is lame; Youth is hot and bold, age is weak and cold; Youth is wild, and age is tame.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(
Dramatist,
Playwright,
Poet)
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About:
Youth
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Keywords:
bold,
hot,
lame,
nimble,
sport,
tame,
tamer,
tames,
tamest,
taming