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«At 60 the sexual preoccupation, when it hits you, seems sometimes sharper, as if it were an elderly malady, like gout.»
Author: Edmund Wilson
| About:
Elderly,
Sex
| Keywords:
elderly, gout, hits, maladies, malady, preoccupation, sharper
«Play has been man's most useful preoccupation.»
«Too great a preoccupation with motives (especially one's own motive) is liable to lead to too little concern for consequences.»
Author: Katherine Whitehorn
| About:
Consequences
| Keywords:
Great A, liable, motives, preoccupation
«We all suffer from the preoccupation that there exists... in the loved one, perfection.»
«I've discovered I've got this preoccupation with ordinary people pursued by large forces.»
Author: Steven Spielberg
(Actor, Film Director, Producer, Screenwriter)
| Keywords:
ordinary people, preoccupation, pursued
«Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones.»
Author: Chamfort
| Keywords:
preoccupation
«That is my major preoccupation /memory, the kingdom of memory. I want to protect and enrich that kingdom, glorify that kingdom and serve it.»
«Perhaps a modern society can remain stable only by eliminating adolescence, by giving its young, from the age of ten, the skills, responsibilities, and rewards of grownups, and opportunities for action in all spheres of life. Adolescence should be a time of useful action, while book learning and scholarship should be a preoccupation of adults.»
Author: Eric Hoffer
(Writer)
| Keywords:
adolescence, Eliminating, grownup, grownups, Modern Age, preoccupation, responsibilities, rewards, scholarship, skills, Spheres, stable, The Modern Age
«Our passionate preoccupation with the sky, the stars, and a God somewhere in outer space is a homing impulse. We are drawn back to where we came from.»
«Any preoccupation with ideas of what is right or wrong in conduct shows an arrested intellectual development»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Ideas
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arrested, arrested development, intellectual development, preoccupation, Right or Wrong
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