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Grant that the true organ with which the beautiful is apprehended is the imagination, and it follows that all arts are likely to affect the feelings indirectly.


Eduard Hanslick


#apprehended #arts #beautiful #feelings #follows

Imperialism was genuinely popular among Athenians who would expect to share in its profits, even if only indirectly and collectively, and not to have to bear its burdens.


J. M. Roberts


#athenians #bear #burdens #collectively #even

Never look directly at the sun. Instead, look at the sunflower.


Vera Nazarian


#indirect #look #looking #relativity #sun

Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast.


Jane Austen


#boast #carelessness #deceitful #humility #indirect

I have never participated directly or indirectly in any business related to the United Nations.


Kojo Annan


#business #directly #i #indirectly #nations

Interest rate cuts have an effect in stimulating an economy by directly or indirectly making someone, somewhere, spend more than they otherwise would. That extra spending increases demand and ensures that we all carry on with work to do, without us having to slash our prices or our wrists.


Evan Davis


#cuts #demand #directly #economy #effect

Note, besides, that it is no more immoral to directly rob citizens than to slip indirect taxes into the price of goods that they cannot do without.


Albert Camus


#cannot #citizens #directly #goods #immoral

Even a purely moral act that has no hope of any immediate and visible political effect can gradually and indirectly, over time, gain in political significance.


Vaclav Havel


#any #effect #even #gain #gradually

There are works of literature whose influence is strong but indirect because it is mediated through the whole of the culture rather than immediately through imitation. Wordsworth is the case that comes to mind.


J. M. Coetzee


#case #comes #culture #imitation #immediately

But picketing - picketing for or against something, and handing out literature - these are conspicuously formal actions. They have to be understood as indirect communication.


Tony Conrad


#against #communication #conspicuously #formal #handing






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