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«Science is analytical, descriptive, informative. Man does not live by bread alone, but by science he attempts to do so. Hence the deadliness of all that is purely scientific.»
Author: Eric Gill
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Science
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analytical, attempts, deadliness, descriptive, informative, purely
«The ballet is a purely female thing; it is a woman, a garden of beautiful flowers, and man is the gardener.»
«Purely sensual love is never true or lasting, for which reason first love is, as a rule, but a passing infatuation, a fleeting passion»
Author: Richard Von Krafft-Ebing
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Love
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First Love, fleeting, infatuation, Infatuations, purely, sensual
«There is among us a far closer relationship than the purely social one of a fraternal organization because we are bound together not only by a single interest but by a common goal. To win. Nothing else matters, and nothing else will do.»
Author: Sandy Koufax
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Relationships
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common interest, fraternal, organization, purely, social organization
«The real truthfulness of all works of imagination, sculpture, painting, and written fiction, is so purely in the imagination, that the artist never seeks to represent positive truth, but the idealized image of a truth»
Author: Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
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Art,
Imagination,
Truth
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idealize, idealized, idealizing, purely, represent, sculpture, truthfulness
«The purely agitational attitude is not good enough for a detailed consideration of a subject»
Author: Jawaharlal Nehru
(Prime Minister)
| About:
Attitude
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consideration, detailed, good enough, purely
«Now it is such a bizarrely improbable coincidence that anything so mind-bog-gglingly useful could have evolved purely by chance that some thinkers have chosen to see it as the final and clinching proof of the non-existence of God.The argument goes something like this: `I refuse to prove that I exist,' says God, `for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing.'`But,' says Man, `The Babel fish is a dead giveaway, isn't it? It could not have evolved by chance. It proves you exist, and so therefore, by your own arguments, you don't. QED.'`Oh dear,' says God, `I hadn't thought of that,' and promptly vanished in a puff of logic.`Oh, that was easy,' says Man, and for an encore goes on to prove that black is white and getshimself killed on the next zebra crossing.»
Author: Douglas Adams
(Writer)
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Humor
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«The barrier between success is not something which exists in the real world: it is composed purely and simply of doubts about ability.»
«Ninety-nine hundredths or, possibly, nine hundred and ninety-nine thousandths of our activity is purely automatic and habitual, from our rising in the morning to our lying down each night.»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
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activity, automatic, habitual, hundredths, ninety, Ninety nine, Nine hundred, possibly, purely, rising, thousandth, thousandths
«Old age has the last word: the purely naturalistic look at life, however enthusiastically it may begin, is sure to end in sadness. . . . This sadness lies at the heart of every merely positivistic, agnostic, or naturalistic scheme of philosophy.»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
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enthusiastically, last word, naturalistic, positivistic, purely, scheme, The Last Word