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amusements
«The time will come when public opinion will no longer tolerate amusements based on the mistreatment and killing of animals. The time will come, but when? When will we reach the point that hunting, the pleasure in killing animals for sport, will be regarded as a mental aberration?»
Author: Albert Schweitzer
(Missionary, Musician, Philosopher, Theologian)
| About:
Opinions
| Keywords:
aberration, aberrations, amusements, hunting, mistreatment, public opinion, tolerate
«Life would be tolerable but for its amusements.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| About:
Life
| Keywords:
amusements, tolerable
«My first wish is to see this plague of mankind banished from the earth, and the sons and daughters of this world employed in more pleasing and innocent amusements, than in preparing implements and exercising them for the destruction of mankind»
Author: George Washington
(President)
| About:
Mankind
| Keywords:
amusements, banished, daughters, employed, exercising, implemented, implementing, implements, my first, plague, pleasing, preparing, Sons and Daughters
«A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
amusements, concealed, games, stereotype, stereotyped, stereotyping, The Games, unconscious
«I understood that all the material of a literary work was in my past life, I understood that I had acquired it in the midst of frivolous amusements, in idleness, in tenderness and in pain, stored up by me without my divining its destination or even its survival, as the seed has in reserve all the ingredients which will nourish the plant.»
Author: Marcel Proust
(Author, Novelist)
| Keywords:
amusements, by me, divining, frivolous, ingredients, literary, literary work, nourish, past life, reserve, stored up, tenderness, The Plant
«Composition is, for the most part, an effort of slow diligence and steady perseverance, to which the mind is dragged by necessity or resolution, and from which the attention is every moment starting to more delightful amusements.»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
amusements, composition, delightful, diligence, dragged, for the most part, resolution, steady
«One of the amusements of idleness is reading without the fatigue of close attention; and the world therefore swarms with writers whose wish is not to be studied, but to be read»
«Let us read and let us dance - two amusements that will never do any harm to the world.»
Author: Voltaire
(Philosopher, Writer)
| Keywords:
amusements, Between Two Worlds, dance, Dances With, harm, harmed, harming, harms, read, The Dancing, two