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«There is nothing as deceptive as an obvious fact»
«Social science virtually abhors the event. Not without reason; the short-term is the most capricious and deceptive form of time.»
Author: Fernand Braudel
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abhors, capricious, deceptive, short-term, social event, social science, social sciences, the Social Sciences, virtually
«The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.»
Author: John Burroughs
(Essayist, Naturalist)
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deceptive, distant, lure, lured, lures, luring
«Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss!»
Author: Oliver Goldsmith
(Dramatist, Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
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charming, consummate, consummated, consummating, deceptive, describe, destructive, novel
«The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their strength /each asking from the other instead of finding pleasure in giving. It is even more deceptive to dream of gaining through the child a plenitude, a warmth, a value, which one is unable to create for oneself; the child brings joy only to the woman who is capable of disinterestedly desiring the happiness of another, to one who without being wrapped up in self seeks to transcend her own existence.»
Author: Simone de Beauvoir
(Writer)
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asking, curse, deceptive, desiring, disinterestedly, find oneself, gaining, individuals, joined, plenitude, seeks, self-seeking, transcend, unable, warmth, wrapped, wrapped up
«The attempt to devote oneself to literature alone is a most deceptive thing, and often, paradoxically, it is literature that suffers for it.»
«There is nothing so deceptive as the distance of a light upon a pitch-dark night, and sometimes the glimmer seemed to be far away upon the horizon and sometimes it might have been within a few yards of us.»
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle, Sr.
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deceptive, glimmer, glimmering, Glimmers, light upon, might-have-been, pitch-dark
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