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«Most of the dogmatic religions have exhibited a perverse talent for taking the wrong side on the most important concepts in the material universe, from the structure of the solar system to the origin of man»
Author: George Gaylord Simpson
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Religion
| Keywords:
concepts, dogmatic, exhibited, perverse, solar system, The Solar System
«Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous- to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.»
«There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.»
«Sleep is perverse as human nature, Sleep is perverse as a legislature, Sleep is as forward as hives or goiters, And where it is least desired, it loiters.»
«Then Saul's anger was kindled against Jonathan, and he said unto him, Thou son of the perverse rebellious woman, do not I know that thou hast chosen the son of Jesse to thine own confusion, and unto the confusion of thy mother's nakedness? / For as long as the son of Jesse liveth upon the ground, thou shalt not be established, nor thy kingdom. Wherefore now send and fetch him unto me, for he shall surely die.»
«Then Jesus answered and said, O faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you? how long shall I suffer you? bring him hither to me.»
«Put away from thee a froward mouth, and perverse lips put far from thee.»
«These widows, sir, are the most perverse creatures in the world.»
«Philistine gives the notion of something particularly stiff-necked and perverse in the resistance to light and its children; and therein it specially suits our middle-class.»
Author: Matthew Arnold
(Critic, Poet)
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middle class, necked, perverse, Philistine, stiff, suits
«Men of perverse opinion do not know the excellence of what is in their hands, till someone dash it from them.»
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