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to the point
«The professional celebrity, male and female, is the crowning result of the star system of a society that makes a fetish of competition. In America, this system is carried to the point where a man who can knock a small white ball into a series of holes in the ground with more efficiency than anyone else thereby gains social access to the President of the United States.»
Author: C. Wright Mills
| Keywords:
access, celebrity, efficiency, fetish, fetishes, gains, gain ground, ground ball, holes, hole in the ground, knock, President of, President of the, President of the United, President of the United States, small white, social system, social systems, thereby, The Professional, The Star, to the point
«The friendships which last are those wherein each friend respects the other's dignity to the point of not really wanting anything from him»
Author: Cyril Connolly
| About:
Dignity,
Friendship,
Respect
| Keywords:
dignity, friendships, Point of, respects, the point, to the point, wanting, wherein
«My pessimism goes to the point of suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists»
Author: Edmond Rostand
| About:
Pessimism
| Keywords:
pessimism, Pessimists, sincerity, suspecting, to the point
«Nearly every man who develops an idea works it up to the point where it looks impossible, and then he gets discouraged. That's not the place to become discouraged.»
Author: Thomas Alva Edison
(Inventor)
| About:
Ideas
| Keywords:
develops, discouraged, nearly, the point, to the point
«Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.»
Author: Albert Camus
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
create, point, point man, Point of, tears, the point, to the point
«The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact than a drunken man is happier than a sober one»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
believer, drunken, fact, happier, in point of fact, no more, point, point man, skeptic, skeptics, sober, sobered, soberest, sobering, sobers, sober up, the point, The Skeptic, to the point
«The ultimate aim of psychoanalysis is to attribute art to mental weakness, and then to trace the weakness back to the point where, according to analytic dogma, it originated -- namely, the lavatory.»
Author: Karl Kraus
(Critic, Journalist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
analytic, attribute, dogma, lavatories, lavatory, namely, originated, psychoanalysis, to the point, trace
«The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can find any foot-hold. It is a fact that we are suffering from nihilism.»
Author: Albert Camus
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
disarray, in point of fact, nihilism, stretched, This Modern World, to the point
«Misfortune, and recited misfortune especially, may be prolonged to the point where it ceases to excite pity and arouses only irritation.»
Author: Dorothy Parker
(Poet, Writer)
| About:
Misfortune
| Keywords:
arouses, arousing, ceases, especially, excite, irritation, irritations, misfortune, pity, prolonged, prolonging, prolongs, recited, recites, reciting, the point, to the point
«Living in a constant chase after gain compels people to expend their spirit to the point of exhaustion»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| About:
Living
| Keywords:
chase, chase after, compels, constant, exhaustion, expend, expended, expending, expends, Point of, the point, to the point