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«The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.»
Author: Diane Arbus
(Photographer)
| About:
Action,
World
| Keywords:
contemplation, cutting, cuttings, cutting edge, edge, Edge of, grasped, the Hand
«The world has never yet seen a truly great and virtuous nation because in the degradation of woman the very fountains of life are poisoned at their source.»
Author: Lucretia Mott
(Social Reformer)
| About:
Life,
Nations,
Women,
World
| Keywords:
degradation, fountains, poisoned, virtuous
«The world enslaves our sex by the mere fear of an epithet; and as long as it can throw any vile term at us, before which we cower, it can maintain our enslavement»
Author: Tennessee Claflin
| About:
World
| Keywords:
cower, cowering, enslavement, enslaves, epithet, epithets, vile
«The world consists almost exclusively of people who are one sort and who behave like another sort»
«The world goes up and the world goes down, the sunshine follows the rain; and yesterday's sneer and yesterday's frown can never come over again.»
«The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms. Very often it does not know what to do with genius.»
«The world has become uglier since it began to look into a mirror every day; so let us settle for the mirror image and do without an inspection of the original»
Author: Karl Kraus
(Critic, Journalist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Appearance,
World
| Keywords:
inspection, look into, mirror image, uglier
«The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing.»
Author: Michel de Montaigne
(Philosopher, Writer)
| About:
World
| Keywords:
carcass, carcasses, The Shadow, vanity
«The world is an old woman, and mistakes any gilt farthing for a gold coin; whereby being often cheated, she will thenceforth trust nothing but the common copper»
«The world in general doesn't know what to make of originality; it is startled out of its comfortable habits of thought, and its first reaction is one of anger.»
Author: William Somerset Maugham
(Novelist, Playwright, Writer)
| About:
Originality,
World
| Keywords:
in general, originality, reaction, startle, startled
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