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«Except in a few well-publicized instances (enough to lend credence to the iconography painted on the walls of the media), the rigorous practice of rugged individualism usually leads to poverty, ostracism and disgrace. The rugged individualist is too often mistaken for the misfit, the maverick, the spoilsport, the sore thumb.»
Author: Lewis H. Lapham
| Keywords:
credence, disgrace, iconography, individualism, individualist, individualists, instances, lend, maverick, mavericks, misfit, misfits, mistaken, ostracism, painted, publicized, rigorous, rugged, rugged individualism, rugged individualist, sore, spoilsport, thumb
«for the majority of instances where money is desired for the admitted object of blessing others, the real underlying motive is a love of popularity, and a desire to pose as a philanthropist or reformer....If your real desire is to do good, there is no need to wait for money before you do it; you can do it now, this very moment, and just where you are.»
Author: James Allen
(Statesman)
| About:
Money,
Wealth
| Keywords:
instances, philanthropists, poses, underlies
«In most modern instances, interpretation amounts to the philistine refusal to leave the work of art alone. Real art has the capacity to make us nervous. By reducing the work of art to its content and then interpreting that, one tames the work of art. Interpretation makes art manageable, conformable.»
Author: Susan Sontag
(Activist, Critic, Writer)
| Keywords:
amounts, conformable, instances, interpretation, interpreting, manageable, nervous, Philistine, reducing, refusal, tames
«For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise.»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
| About:
Change,
Opinions
| Keywords:
consideration, experienced, fuller, fullers, instances, obliged, subjects
«Quite often good things have hurtful consequences. There are instances of men who have been ruined by their money or killed by their courage.»
Author: Aristotle
(Philosopher, Physician, Scientist)
| About:
Consequences
| Keywords:
hurtful, instances, ruined
«IMMORAL, adj. Inexpedient. Whatever in the long run and with regard to the greater number of instances men find to be generally inexpedient comes to be considered wrong, wicked, immoral. If man's notions of right and wrong have any other basis than this of expediency; if they originated, or could have originated, in any other way; if actions have in themselves a moral character apart from, and nowise dependent on, their consequences --then all philosophy is a lie and reason a disorder of the mind.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
adj, dependent, dependent on, disorder, expediency, immoral, inexpedient, instances, in the long run, moral character, moral philosophy, notions, nowise, originated, regard to, right and wrong, with regard to
«If we knew all the laws of Nature, we should need only one fact, or the description of one actual phenomenon, to infer all the particular results at that point. Now we know only a few laws, and our result is vitiated, not, of course, by any confusion or irregularity in Nature, but by our ignorance of essential elements in the calculation. Our notions of law and harmony are commonly confined to those instances which we detect; but the harmony which results from a far greater number of seemingly conflicting, but really concurring, laws, which we have not detected, is still more wonderful. The particular laws are as our points of view, as, to the traveler, a mountain outline varies with every step, and it has an infinite number of profiles, though absolutely but one form. Even when cleft or bored through it is not comprehended in its entireness.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
calculation, cleaved, cleaving, cleft, clefts, comprehended, concur, concurred, concurring, concurs, confined, description, detect, detected, entireness, ignorance of the law, infer, inferred, infers, infinite number, instances, irregularity, Laws of nature, notions, one form, outline, outlines, phenomenon, points of view, profile, profiles, profiling, seemingly, The Traveler, traveler, view as, vitiated, vitiating
«It may be possible to do without dancing entirely. Instances have been known of young people passing many, many months successively without being at any ball of any description, and no material injury accrue either to body or mind; but when a beginning is made -- when the felicities of rapid motion have once been, though slightly, felt -- it must be a very heavy set that does not ask for more.»
Author: Jane Austen
(Novelist, Writer)
| Keywords:
accrue, accrued, accrues, description, felicities, injury, instances, material body, motion, no ball, rapid, rapids, set in motion, slightly, successively