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penetration
«The simple fact is that when I took up my little sling and aimed at Communism, I also hit something else. What I hit was the forces of that great socialist revolution, which, in the name of liberalism, spasmodically, incompletely, somewhat formlessly, always in the same direction, has been inching its ice cap over the nation for two decades. ...[T]hough I knew it existed, I still had no adequate idea of its extent, the depth of its penetration or the fierce vindictiveness of its revolutionary temper, which is a reflex of it struggle to keep and advance its political power.»
Author: Whittaker Chambers
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«I want someone to laugh with me, someone to be grave with me, someone to please me and help my discrimination with his or her own remark, and at times, no doubt, to admire my acuteness and penetration.»
«In the common people there is no wisdom, no penetration, no power of judgment»
Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero
(Lawyer, Orator, Scholar, Statesman, Writer)
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common people, judgment, penetration
«Men in general judge more from appearances than from reality. All men have eyes, but few have the gift of penetration»
Author: Niccolo Machiavelli
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Appearance,
Gifts,
Men
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appearances, general, General A, General of the, General The, gift, in general, judge, penetration, The Gift
«Great abilities are not requisite for an Historian; for in historical composition, all the greatest powers of the human mind are quiescent. He has facts ready to his hand; so there is no exercise of invention. Imagination is not required in any degree; only about as much as is used in the lowest kinds of poetry. Some penetration, accuracy, and coloring, will fit a man for the task, if he can give the application which is necessary.»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
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accuracy, coloring, historian, penetration, quiescent, requisite, to the lowest degree