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«The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.»
Author: Aristotle
(Philosopher, Physician, Scientist)
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intoxication, permanently, resembled, resembling, state, young
«Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities, places exchange their form, order, distances, a shapeless dust cloud invades the continents.»
Author: Italo Calvino
(Essayist, Journalist, Writer)
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continents, distances, dust cloud, invades, resembling, shapeless
«A custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black, stinking fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless»
Author: James I of England
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black lung, bottomless, fume, fumes, harmful, hateful, horrible, loathsome, nearest, pit, resembling, stinking, thereof, The Black, The Nose, the pit
«I've never made the trip to or from Connecticut without its resembling the worst excesses of the French Revolution.»
Author: Pat Buckley
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Connecticut, excesses, French Revolution, resembling, the French, The French Revolution, trip
«Doing is a quantum leap from imagining. Thinking about swimming isn't much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away. The defense force inside of us wants us to be cautious, to stay away from anything as intense as a new kind of action. Its job is to protect us, and it categorically avoids anything resembling danger. But it's often wrong. Anything worth doing is worth doing too soon.»
Author: Barbara Sher
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avoids, categorically, cautious, defense force, imagining, inside job, quantum, resembling, swimming, too soon
«CRAYFISH, n. A small crustacean very much resembling the lobster, but less indigestible.In this small fish I take it that human wisdom is admirably figured and symbolized; for whereas the crayfish doth move only backward, and can have only retrospection, seeing naught but the perils already passed, so the wisdom of man doth not enable him to avoid the follies that beset his course, but only to apprehend their nature afterward. --Sir James Merivale»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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admirably, beset, crayfish, crustacean, indigestible, lobster, lobsters, naught, resembling, retrospection, symbolize, symbolized
«What a strange vanity painting is; it attracts admiration by resembling the original, we do not admire.»
Author: Blaise Pascal
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist)
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admiration, attracts, resembling, vanity
«A people always ends by resembling its shadow.»
Author: Rudyard Kipling
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resembling