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«The purpose of medicine is to prevent significant disease, to decrease pain and to postpone death... Technology has to support these goals-if not, it may even be counterproductive.»
Author: Dr. Joel J. Nobel
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Disease,
Medicine,
Technology
| Keywords:
counterproductive, decrease, decreased, decreases, decreasing, postpone, significant
«There are three side effects of acid: enhanced long-term memory, decreased short-term memory, and I forget the third.»
Author: Timothy Leary
(Author, Psychologist)
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acid, acids, decreased, decreases, decreasing, effects, enhanced, short-term, Short term memory, side effect, side effects, The Third
«It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.»
«The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the truly new is criticized with aversion.»
Author: Walter Benjamin
(Essayist, Theologian, Writer)
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art form, aversion, aversions, conventional, criticized, decrease, decreased, decreases, decreasing, distinction, enjoyed, enjoyment, sharper, significance, The Social, uncritically
«Man's responsibility increases as that of the gods decreases»
«Growth in wisdom may be exactly measured by decrease in bitterness»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
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bitterness, decrease, decreased, decreases, decreasing, exactly, growth, growths, may, measured, measure up, wisdom, with bitterness
«Comparatively few people know what a million dollars actually is. To the majority it is a gaseous concept, swelling or decreasing as the occasion suggests. In the minds of politicians, perhaps more than anywhere, the notion of a million dollars has this accordion-like ability to expand or contract; if they are disposing of it, the million is a pleasing sum, reflecting warmly upon themselves; if somebody else wants it, it becomes a figure of inordinate size, not to be compassed by the rational mind.»
Author: Robertson Davies
(Author, Journalist)
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accordion, compassed, contract, decreasing, disposing, gaseous, inordinate, suggests, warmly
«The credulity of the church is decreasing, and the most marvelous miracles are not either 'explained,' or allowed to take refuge behind the mistakes of the translators, or hide in the drapery of allegory»
Author: Robert Green Ingersoll
(Orator, Statesman)
| About:
Church,
Credulity,
Miracles
| Keywords:
Allegories, allegory, credulity, decreasing, drapery, translator, translators
«If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another: I hope, upon familiarity will grow more contempt.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
acquaintance, contempt, decrease, decreased, decreases, decreasing, familiarity, in the beginning, occasion
«Have you not a moist eye, a dry hand, a yellow cheek, a white beard, a decreasing leg, an increasing belly? Is not your voice broken, your wind short, your chin double, your wit single, and every part about you blasted with antiquity?»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
antiquity, beard, belly, blasted, break wind, cheek, chin, chinned, chins, decreased, decreases, decreasing, increasing, leg, moist, take it on the chin, yellow
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