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«It is not so important to be serious as it is to be serious about the important things. The monkey wears an expression of seriousness which would do credit to any college student, but the monkey is serious because he itches.»
Author: Robert M. Hutchins
(Educator, Writer)
| About:
Seriousness
| Keywords:
college student, itched, itches, itching, monkey, seriousness, student, The Monkey, wears
«Laughter is wine for the soul-laughter soft, or loud and deep, tinged through with seriousness. the hilarious declaration made by man that life is worth living.»
Author: Sean O'Casey
(Playwright)
| About:
Laughter
| Keywords:
declaration, hilarious, seriousness, through with, tinge, tinged, tingeing
«Advertising treats all products with the reverence and the seriousness due to sacraments.»
Author: Thomas Merton
| Keywords:
due, due to, products, reverence, sacraments, seriousness, the sacrament, treats
«A person's maturity consists in having found again the seriousness one had as a child, at play»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| About:
Maturity
| Keywords:
maturity, seriousness
«A jest often decides matters of importance more effectually and happily than seriousness»
«He [Chaucer] lacks the high seriousness of the great classics, and therewith an important part of their virtue.»
«Dullness is the coming of age of seriousness.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
Coming of age, seriousness, The Coming
«Every man has some favorite topic of conversation, on which, by a feigned seriousness of attention, he may be drawn to expatiate without end»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
expatiate, feigned, feigning, seriousness, without end
«Jews and homosexuals are the outstanding creative minorities in contemporary urban culture. Creative, that is, in the truest sense: they are creators of sensibilities. The two pioneering forces of modern sensibility are Jewish moral seriousness and homosexual aestheticism and irony.»
Author: Susan Sontag
(Activist, Critic, Writer)
| Keywords:
Aestheticism, contemporary, creators, homosexual, homosexuals, ironies, irony, Jewish, Jews, minorities, moral force, outstanding, Pioneering, pioneers, sensibilities, sensibility, seriousness, truest, Two Cultures, urban
«I am not strictly speaking mad, for my mind is absolutely normal in the intervals, and even more so than before. But during the attacks it is terrible - and then I lose consciousness of everything. But that spurs me on to work and to seriousness, as a miner who is always in danger makes haste in what he does.»
Author: Vincent van Gogh
(Painter)
| Keywords:
attacks, haste, intervals, miner, miners, seriousness, spurs, strictly, strictly speaking
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