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stripped
«Stripped of ethical rationalizations and philosophical pretensions, a crime is anything that a group in power chooses to prohibit.»
Author: Freda Adler
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chooses, ethical, philosophical, pretensions, prohibit, rationalization, rationalizations, stripped
«Dark spruce forest frowned on either side the frozen waterway. The trees had been stripped by a recent wind of their white covering of frost, and they seemed to lean towards each other, black and ominous, in the fading light. A vast silence reigned over the land.»
«And he stripped off his clothes also, and prophesied before Samuel in like manner, and lay down naked all that day and all that night. Wherefore they say, Is Saul also among the prophets?»
«But he, willing to justify himself, said unto Jesus, And who is my neighbour? / And Jesus answering said, A certain man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell among thieves, which stripped him of his raiment, and wounded him, and departed, leaving him half dead.»
«Perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add but when there is no longer anything to take away, when a body has been stripped down to its nakedness»
Author: Antoine de Saint-Exupery
(Author, Pilot, Writer)
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Body,
Perfection
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attained, nakedness, stripped-down, stripped, take away
«Matisse makes a drawing, then he makes a copy of it. He recopies it five times, ten times, always clarifying the line. He's convinced that the last, the most stripped down, is the best, the purest, the definitive one; and in fact, most of the time, it was the first. In drawing, nothing is better than the first attempt.»
Author: Pablo Picasso
(Artist, Painter)
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attempt, clarified, clarifies, clarifying, convinced, copy, copying, definitive, drawing, draw a line, draw the line, five, in fact, line, one line, purest, stripped-down, stripped, ten, The Last
«She stripped it from her arm. I see her yet:Her pretty action did outsell her gift,And yet enriched it too.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
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arm, enriched, outsell, stripped