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It is the fragrant lack of practicality that makes high-heeled shoes so fascinating: in terms of static mechanics they induce a so ...
Any translation which intends to perform a transmitting function cannot transmit anything but information--hence, something inesse ...
Of all the inhabitants of the inferno, none but Lucifer knows that hell is hell, and the secret function of purgatory is to make o ...
The function of the hero in art is to inspire the reader or spectator to continue in the same spirit from where he, the hero, leav ...
Common-sense is part of the home-made ideology of those who have been deprived of fundamental learning, of those who have been kep ...
The most important function of the university in an age of reason is to protect reason from itself.
The reader uses his eyes as well as or instead of his ears and is in every way encouraged to take a more abstract view of the lang ...
The art of never making a mistake is crucial to motherhood. To be effective and to gain the respect she needs to function, a mothe ...
It is known that Whistler when asked how long it took him to paint one of his "nocturnes" answered: "All of my life." With the sam ...
The information links are like nerves that pervade and help to animate the human organism. The sensors and monitors are analogous ...
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