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acquisition
«Success is transient, evanescent. The real passion lies in the poignant acquisition of knowledge about all the shading and subtleties of the creative secrets.»
Author: Konstantin Stanislavsky
(Actor)
| About:
Success
| Keywords:
acquisition, acquisitions, evanescent, poignant, shading, shadings, subtleties, transient
«Men and women are not free to love decently until they have analyzed themselves completely and swept away every mystery from sex; and this means the acquisition of a profound philosophical theory based on wide reading of anthropology and enlightened practice.»
Author: Aleister Crowley
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acquisition, acquisitions, analyzed, anthropology, decently, enlightened, philosophical, philosophical theory, sweep away, swept, Swept Away, theory-based
«Ah, I fancy it is just the same with most of what you call your ''emancipation'.' You have read yourself into a number of new ideas and opinions. You have got a sort of smattering of recent discoveries in various fields / discoveries that seem to overthrow certain principles which have hitherto been held impregnable and unassailable. But all this has only been a matter of intellect, Miss West / superficial acquisition. It has not passed into your blood.»
Author: Henrik Ibsen
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acquisition, hitherto, impregnable, smattering, superficial, unassailable
«There is in Hollywood, as in all cultures in which gambling is the central activity, a lowered sexual energy, an inability to devote more than token attention to the preoccupations of the society outside. The action is everything, more consuming than sex, more immediate than politics; more important always than the acquisition of money, which is never, for the gambler, the true point of the exercise.»
Author: Joan Didion
(Journalist, Novelist)
| Keywords:
acquisition, central, consuming, cultures, devote, gambler, gamblers, gambling, inability, lowered, sexual activity, the Action, The central, The Gambler, token
«It is better to make a piece of music than to perform one, better to perform one than to listen to one, better to listen to one than to misuse it as a means of distraction, entertainment, or acquisition of ''culture.''»
Author: John Cage
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acquisition, acquisitions, distraction, distractions, entertainment, misuse, perform, piece of music
«The acquisition of riches has been to many not an end to their miseries, but a change in them: The fault is not in the riches, but the disposition.»
«If one attempts to assign to religion its place in man's evolution, it seems not so much to be a lasting acquisition, as a parallel to the neurosis which the civilized individual must pass through on his way from childhood to maturity»
Author: Sigmund Freud
(Founder)
| About:
Childhood,
Evolution,
Maturity,
Religion
| Keywords:
acquisition, assign, attempts, parallel, pass through