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conventions
«Know what the old masters did. Know how they composed their pictures, but do not fall into the conventions they established. These conventions were right for them, and they are wonderful. They made their language. You make yours. All the past can help you.»
Author: Robert Henri
(Painter)
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composed, conventions, fall into, Masters, old master, Old Masters, past master, Their language, the conventions
«The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own»
Author: Aldous Huxley
(Critic, Novelist)
| About:
War
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beings, condemned, condemning, conventions, human beings, individual, instruments, monstrous, murder, murdered, murdering, politics, quarreled, quarreling, quarrels, shocking, the Convention, the conventions, victims
«It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.»
Author: Denis Diderot
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accuse, accuses, accusing, conventions, despicable, Human nature, pervert, perverting, perverts, The Accused, the Convention, the conventions
«Love, the strongest and deepest element in all life, the harbinger of hope, of joy, of ecstasy; love, the definer of all laws, of all conventions; love, the freest, the most powerful moulder of human destiny; how can such an all-compelling force be synonymous with that poor little State and Church-begotten weed, marriage?»
Author: Emma Goldman
| About:
Love
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begotten, compelling, conventions, ecstasy, element, freest, free state, harbinger, Joy of, moulder, synonymous, weed
«[To simplify] is very nearly the whole of the higher artistic process; finding what conventions of form and what detail one can do without -- and yet preserve the spirit of the whole.»
Author: Willa Sibert Cather
(Author)
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artistic, conventions, detail, nearly, preserve, simplified, simplifies, simplify, simplifying, the Convention, the conventions
«The frequency with which a man experiences lust depends upon his own physical condition, whereas the occasion which rouse such feelings in him depend upon the social conventions to which he is accustomed»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
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accustomed, conventions, depend upon, frequency
«There is a kind of courtesy in skepticism. It would be an offense against polite conventions to press our doubts too far.»
«What people don't realize is that intimacy has its conventions as well as ordinary social intercourse. There are three cardinal rules -- don't take somebody else's boyfriend unless you've been specifically invited to do so, don't take a drink without being asked, and keep a scrupulous accounting in financial matters.»
Author: W. H. Auden
(Dramatist, Editor, Poet)
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accounting, boyfriend, conventions, financial, intercourse, intimacy, invited, scrupulous, social intercourse, specifically