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«Thou shalt not steal; an empty feat, When its so lucrative to cheat»
Author: Arthur Hugh Clough (Poet, Writer) | About: Cheating | Keywords: feat, lucrative
«Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.»
«Now it is virtually impossible for a vocal conservative to be hired for a tenure-track position on a faculty anywhere, or to receive tenure if so hired. The conservative faculty members I encounter who have achieved this feat, invariably tell me that they were forced to keep their political orientation to themselves until they achieved tenure.»
«Weak arguments are often thrust before my path; but although they are most insubstantial, it is not easy to destroy them. There is not a more difficult feat known than to cut through a cushion with a sword.»
«SLANG, n. The grunt of the human hog (_Pignoramus intolerabilis_) with an audible memory. The speech of one who utters with his tongue what he thinks with his ear, and feels the pride of a creator in accomplishing the feat of a parrot. A means (under Providence) of setting up as a wit without a capital of sense.»
«That man can destroy life is just as miraculous a feat as that he can create it, for life is the miracle, the inexplicable. In the act of destruction, man sets himself above life; he transcends himself as a creature.»
Author: Erich Fromm (Philosopher, Psychoanalyst) | Keywords: feat
«To treat a ''big'' subject in the intensely summarized fashion demanded by an evening's traffic of the stage when the evening, freely clipped at each end, is reduced to two hours and a half, is a feat of which the difficulty looms large.»
«Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other»

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