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«He has managed to capture the particular aura that made even the poet's more mundane activities-of which there were many-fascinatingly boring, so to speak, rather than merely boringly boring.»
Author: John Gross
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activities, aura, boringly, capture, fascinatingly, managed, mundane, so to speak
«One of the reasons it has seemed so difficult for a person to change his habits, his personality, or his way of life, has been that heretofore nearly all efforts at change have been directed to the circumference of the self, so to speak, rather than to the center.»
Author: Maxwell Maltz
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center, circumference, directed, efforts, habits, heretofore, nearly, personality, seemed, so to speak, The Center, the self, way of life
«It is one of the most effective attitudes of the neurotic to measure thumbs down, so to speak, a real person by an ideal, since in doing so he can depreciate him as much as he wishes.»
Author: Alfred Adler
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Attitude
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attitudes, depreciate, depreciates, real person, so to speak, thumbs
«Our attitude toward our own culture has recently been characterized by two qualities, braggadocio and petulance. Braggadocio -- empty boasting of American power, American virtue, American know-how -- has dominated our foreign relations now for some decades. Here at home -- within the family, so to speak -- our attitude to our culture expresses a superficially different spirit, the spirit of petulance. Never before, perhaps, has a culture been so fragmented into groups, each full of its own virtue, each annoyed and irritated at the others.»
Author: Daniel J. Boorstin
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American culture, American Express, annoyed, boasting, braggadocio, characterize, characterized, decades, dominated, expresses, For some, fragmented, groups, irritated, petulance, recently, relations, so to speak, superficially, Two Cultures
«All action takes place, so to speak, in a kind of twilight, which like a fog or moonlight, often tends to make things seem grotesque and larger than they really are.»
Author: Karl von Clausewitz
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Action
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fog, grotesque, grotesques, moonlight, so to speak, tends, tends to, twilight
«As I have discovered by examining my past, I started out as a child. Coincidentally, so did my brother. My mother did not put all her eggs in one basket, so to speak: she gave me a younger brother named Russell, who taught me what was meant by survival of the fittest.»
Author: Bill Cosby
(Actor, Comedian, Producer)
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basket, coincidentally, eggs, fittest, named, Russell, so to speak, survival of the fittest, younger
«It does me good to write a letter which is not a response to a demand, a gratuitous letter, so to speak, which has accumulated in me like the waters of a reservoir.»
Author: Henry Miller
(Author, Writer)
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accumulated, gratuitous, reservoir, reservoirs, so to speak
«Hegel remarks somewhere that all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce.»
Author: Karl Marx
(Philosopher)
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farce, farces, forgot, Hegel, historic, personage, personages, remarks, second time, so to speak
«After all, as a pretty girl once said to me, women are a sex by themselves, so to speak»
«In every concrete individual, there is a uniqueness that defies formulation. We can feel the touch of it and recognize its taste, so to speak, relishing or disliking, as the case may be, but we can give no ultimate account of it, and we have in the end simply to admire the Creator.»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
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concrete, defies, disliking, formulation, relishing, so to speak, The Touch, uniqueness
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