#versa

All universal moral principles are idle fancies. ↗

— Marquis de Sade

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Also, there are now new laws in Brazil which create incentives for Argentine and Latin American films to be premiered and distributed in Brazil and vice versa. ↗

— Walter Salles

#american #american films #brazil #create #distributed

The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise. ↗

— George Santayana

#absolute #any #beauty #disguise #good

The primary use of conversation is to satisfy the impulse to talk. ↗

— George Santayana

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The universal human laws - need, love for the beloved, fear, hunger, periodic exaltation, the kindness that rises up naturally in the absence of hunger/fear/pain - are constant, predictable, reliable, universal, and are merely ornamented with the details of local culture. ↗

— George Saunders

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Linguistics will have to recognise laws operating universally in language, and in a strictly rational manner, separating general phenomena from those restricted to one branch of languages or another. ↗

— Ferdinand de Saussure

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My accent remained terrible. It was very hard for me to initiate any conversation with someone I didn't know. ↗

— Lawrence Welk

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I have a contract but it's not a commitment in the ordinary sense. It's our ongoing conversation. ↗

— Diane Sawyer

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The New Testament evinces its universal design in its very, style, which alone distinguishes it from all the literary productions of earlier and later times. ↗

— Philip Schaff

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A conversation goes sometimes into personal things and that's nicer. You look to each other and you have a different picture, you get into a relationship. ↗

— Maximilian Schell

#different #each #get #goes #into