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«The television, that insidious beast, that Medusa which freezes a billion people to stone every night, staring fixedly, that Siren which called and sang and promised so much and gave, after all, so little.»
Author: Ray Bradbury
| About:
Television
| Keywords:
after all, a billion, beast, billion, every night, fixedly, freezes, gave, insidious, promised, sang, siren, Sirens, staring, stone, television
«The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.»
Author: Sigmund Freud
(Founder)
| About:
Civilization,
Men
| Keywords:
founder, foundering, founders, hurled, hurling, hurls, insult, stone, The First Stone, The Founders
«The observer, when he seems to himself to be observing a stone, is really, if physics is to be believed, observing the effects of the stone upon himself.»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
believed, effected, effecting, effects, observer, observing, physic, physics, really, seems, stone, stoning, The Observer, to that effect
«To be a man is to be responsible. It is to feel shame at the sight of what seems to be unmerited misery. It is to take pride in a victory won by one's comrades. It is to feel, when setting one's stone, that one is contributing to the building of the»
Author: Antoine de Saint-Exupery
(Author, Pilot, Writer)
| About:
Pride,
Responsibility
| Keywords:
comrades, contributing, misery, setting, shame, stone, take pride, The Building, unmerited
«The savage bows down to idols of wood and stone, the civilized man to idols of flesh and blood»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
blood, bowing, bows, bow out, civilize, civilized, civilizes, civilizing, flesh, fleshed, Flesh and Blood, idols, savage, savaged, stone, take a bow, wood
«The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
allowance, allowances, copper, coppers, finest, gentle, leisure, leisure time, liberal, steel, steels, stone, The Finest, tools, touches, workers
«The latest refinements of science are linked with the cruelties of the Stone Age.»
Author: Winston Churchill
(Author, Orator, Prime Minister)
| Keywords:
cruelties, latest, linked, refinements, stone