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«The moon is nothing But a circumambulating aphrodisiac Divinely subsidized to provoke the world Into a rising birth-rate»
Author: Christopher Fry
(Writer)
| Keywords:
aphrodisiac, aphrodisiacs, birth, birth rate, divinely, provoke, provokes, rate, rising, subsidize, subsidized, subsidizes, The Moon
«The rate at which a person can mature is directly proportional to the embarrassment he can tolerate.»
Author: Douglas Engelbart
(Inventor)
| About:
Maturity
| Keywords:
directly, directly proportional, embarrassment, embarrassments, mature, proportional, rate, The Embarrassment, tolerate
«The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.»
Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
(Writer)
| About:
Ability,
Intelligence,
Testing
| Keywords:
first rate, First test, intelligence test, in the mind, opposed, rate, retain, The test
«We all run on two clocks. One is the outside clock, which ticks away our decades and brings us ceaselessly to the dry season. The other is the inside clock, where you are your own timekeeper and determine your own chronology, your own internal weather and your own rate of living. Sometimes the inner clock runs itself out long before the outer one, and you see a dead man going through the motions of living.»
Author: Max Lerner
(Columnist, Politician)
| About:
Clocks
| Keywords:
ceaselessly, chronology, clock, Dead Man, decades, dry, dry run, dry season, internal, motions, outer, rate, run dry, run on, The Tick, tick, ticking, ticks, timekeeper
«What is it about grandparents that is so lovely? I'd like to say that grandparents are God's gifts to children. And if they can but see, hear and feel what these people have to give, they can mature at a fast rate.»
Author: Bill Cosby
(Actor, Comedian, Producer)
| Keywords:
fast, gifts, grandparent, grandparents, lovely, mature, matured, matures, maturing, rate
«Thinking is the most unhealthy thing in the world, and people die of it just as they die of any other disease. Fortunately, in England at any rate, thought is not catching. Our splendid physique as a people is entirely due to our national stupidity.»
«The liar at any rate recognizes that recreation, not instruction, is the aim of conversation, and is a far more civilized being than the blockhead who loudly expresses his disbelief in a story which is told simply for the amusement of the company»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
amusement, blockhead, blockheads, civilized, disbelief, expresses, instruction, liar, loudly, rate, re-creation, recognizes, recreation, recreations, very loudly
«Well I am certainly wiser than this man. It is only too likely that neither of us has any knowledge to boast of; but he thinks that he knows something which he does not know, whereas I am quite conscious of my ignorance. At any rate it seems that I am wiser than he is to this small extent, that I do not think that I know what I do not know.»
Author: Socrates
(Philosopher)
| Keywords:
at any rate, boast, boasted, certainly, conscious, extent, likely, neither, only too, quite, rate, rating, seems, This Man, to that extent, to what extent, wiser