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identify
«To care for the quarrels of the past, to identify oneself passionately with a cause that became, politically speaking, a losing cause with the birth of the modern world, is to experience a kind of straining against reality, a rebellious nonconformity that, again, is rare in America, where children are instructed in the virtues of the system they live under, as though history had achieved a happy ending in American civics.»
Author: Mary McCarthy
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American history, American System, civics, Happy ending, identify, instructed, modern history, modern world, nonconformity, passionately, politically, quarrels, rebellious, straining, They Live, the system
«Over the years, we have come to identify quality in a college not by whom it serves but by how many students it excludes. Let us not be a sacred priesthood protecting the temple, but rather the fulfillers of dreams.»
«Once the curtain is raised, the actor is ceases to belong to himself. He belongs to his character, to his author, to his public. He must do the impossible to identify himself with the first, not to betray the second, and not to disappoint the third.»
«The unpleasant thing about society today is nowadays is that there is a confusion between people and their function; or rather, people are tempted to identify with the function they perform. This is what's happening, particularly in totalitarian soc»
Author: Eugene Ionesco
| About:
Society
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happening, identify, nowadays, particularly, tempted, totalitarian, unpleasant
«The only freedom that is of enduring importance is the freedom of intelligence, that is to say, freedom of observation and of judgment, exercised in behalf of purposes that are intrinsically worth while. The commonest mistake made about freedom is, I think, to identify it with freedom of movement, or, with the external or physical side of activity.»
Author: John Dewey
(Educator, Philosopher, Psychologist)
| About:
Freedom
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behalf, commonest, common mistake, enduring, exercised, freedom of movement, identify, intrinsically, physical exercise, that is to say
«What this task requires in the way of higher intellectual gifts is a sense of unity and a power of judgement, raised to a marvelous pitch of vision, which easily grasps and dismisses a thousand remote possibilities an ordinary mind would labor to identify, and wear itself out in doing so.»
«The only way we'll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world. We are blood brothers to the people of Brazil, Venezuelan Haiti and Cuba.»
Author: Malcolm X
| About:
Freedom
| Keywords:
brazil, brothers, Cuba, Haiti, identifies, identify, identifying, oppressed, oppressing, People of, Venezuelan
«The cardinal responsibility of leadership is to identify the dominant contradiction at each point of the historical process and to work out a central line to resolve it.»
Author: Mao Tse-Tung
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cardinal, Cardinals, contradiction, dominant, historical, identify, identifying, line of work, resolve, The Cardinals, work out
«Spaceship Earth: The problem for the passengers is that there is no manual to identify all the parts, and no instructions on how to operate the spaceship.»
Author: Richard Buckminster Fuller
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identifies, identify, identifying, instructions, manual, operate, parts, passenger, passengers, spaceship, The Manual
«The Louvre is a morgue; you go there to identify your friends.»
Author: Jean Cocteau
(Actor, Film Director, Novelist, Painter, Poet)
| Keywords:
identify, morgue, morgues, The Louvre