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«In order to live a fully human life we require not only control of our bodies (though control is a prerequisite); we must touch the unity and resonance of our physicality, our bond with the natural order, the corporeal grounds of our intelligence.»
Author: Adrienne Rich
| Keywords:
bond, corporeal, grounds, Human Touch, natural order, Order The, physicality, prerequisite, resonance
«No doubt Jack the Ripper excused himself on the grounds that it was human nature.»
Author: A. A. Milne
(Humorist)
| Keywords:
excused, grounds, Human nature, jack, jacks, Jack the Ripper, no doubt, ripper
«I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don't know the answer»
Author: Douglas Adams
(Writer)
| About:
Questioning
| Keywords:
answer, grounding, grounds, ground out, question, refuse
«Ours is an age of criticism, to which everything must be subjected. The sacredness of religion, and the authority of legislation, are by many regarded as grounds for exemption from the examination by this tribunal, But, if they are exempted, and cannot lay claim to sincere respect, which reason accords only to that which has stood the test of a free and public examination.»
Author: Immanuel Kant
(Philosopher)
| Keywords:
accords, An Age, examination, exempted, exemption, grounds, lay claim, legislation, regarded, sacredness, subjected, The Authority, tribunal
«Our intellect is not the most subtle, the most powerful, the most appropriate, instrument for revealing the truth. It is life that, little by little, example by example, permits us to see that what is most important to our heart, or to our mind, is learned not by reasoning but through other agencies. Then it is that the intellect, observing their superiority, abdicates its control to them upon reasoned grounds and agrees to become their collaborator and lackey.»
Author: Marcel Proust
(Author, Novelist)
| Keywords:
abdicate, abdicated, abdicates, agencies, appropriate, collaborator, collaborators, grounds, lackey, lackeys, observing, permits, reasoned, reasoning, revealing, subtle, superiority
«Once you attempt legislation upon religious grounds, you open the way for every kind of intolerance and religious persecution»
Author: William Butler Yeats
(Dramatist, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Religion,
Trying
| Keywords:
attempt, For every, grounds, intolerance, legislation, persecution, persecutions, religious intolerance, religious persecution
«Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Animals,
Belief,
Men
| Keywords:
credulous, grounds
«I believe that those who promote discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or any other grounds are gravely mistaken about the values that make our nation strong. I will continue to move my administration in the direction of compassion, accep»
Author: Bill Clinton
(President)
| About:
Discrimination,
Sex
| Keywords:
administration, discrimination, gravely, grounds, mistaken, orientation, promote, sexual, sexual orientation
«One mustn't criticize other people on grounds where he can't stand perpendicular himself»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| About:
Criticism
| Keywords:
criticize, criticizes, grounding, grounds, ground out, Other People, perpendicular, stand
«No man is justified in doing evil on the grounds of expedience»
Author: Theodore Roosevelt
(President)
| Keywords:
expedience, grounds, justified, justifying, No Man