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abhors
«For success in training children the first condition is to become as a child oneself, but this means no assumed childishness, no condescending baby-talk that the child immediately sees through and deeply abhors. What it does mean is to be as entirely and simply taken up with the child as the child himself is absorbed by his life.»
Author: Ellen Key
(Writer)
| Keywords:
abhors, absorbed, assumed, baby talk, childishness, condescend, condescended, condescending, In Training, taken up
«Social science virtually abhors the event. Not without reason; the short-term is the most capricious and deceptive form of time.»
Author: Fernand Braudel
| Keywords:
abhors, capricious, deceptive, short-term, social event, social science, social sciences, the Social Sciences, virtually
«Nature abhors a hero. For one thing, he violates the law of conservation of energy. For another, how can it be the survival of the fittest when the fittest keeps putting himself in situations where he is most likely to be creamed?»
Author: Solomon Short
| About:
Nature
| Keywords:
abhors, conservation, conservation of energy, creamed, fittest, for one thing, law of conservation of energy, situations, survival of the fittest, violates
«Wild intelligence abhors any narrow world; and the world of women must stay narrow, or the woman is an outlaw. No woman could be Nietzsche or Rimbaud without ending up in a whorehouse or lobotomized.»
«Nature abhors a vacuum, and if I can only walk with sufficient carelessness I am sure to be filled.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
abhorring, abhors, carelessness, filled, sufficient, to be filled, vacuum
«Most are engaged in business the greater part of their lives, because the soul abhors a vacuum and they have not discovered any continuous employment for man's nobler faculties»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Business,
Living
| Keywords:
abhorring, abhors, continuous, employment, engaged, faculties, nobler, vacuum
«Nature abhors annihilation.»
Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero
(Lawyer, Orator, Scholar, Statesman, Writer)
| Keywords:
abhorring, abhors, annihilation
«To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| Keywords:
abhorring, abhors, compel, disbelieved, disbelieves, disbelieving, funding, funds, furnish, propagation, sinful, tyrannical