Post by Mr. Wells on Mar 23, 2008 9:11:16 GMT -5
1. ignominy - n. - deep personal humiliation and disgrace -
"Truth never comes into the world but like a bastard, to the ignominy of him that brought her birth."
John Milton
2. manifest - v. - to make evident or certain by showing or displaying
"To me, acting is the most logical way for people's neuroses to manifest themselves, in this great need we all have to express ourselves."
James Dean
3. penitent - adj. - feeling or expressing humble or regretful pain or sorrow for sins or offenses
"The gods look in pleasure on penitent sinners."
Theodor Adorno
4. talisman - n. - an object held to act as a charm to avert evil and bring good fortune; something believed to hold magical powers
"Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air."
John Quincy Adams
5. epoch - n. - an extended period of time usually characterized by a distinctive development or by a memorable series of events
"The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e., the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force."
Karl Marx
6. avert - v. - to see coming and ward off; to avoid
"The New Deal is plainly an attempt to achieve a working socialism and avert a social collapse in America; it is extraordinarily parallel to the successive 'policies' and 'Plans' of the Russian experiment. Americans shirk the word 'socialism', but what else can one call it?"
H. G. Wells
7. incredulity - n. - state of disbelief
"There is a vulgar incredulity, which in historical matters, as well as in those of religion, finds it easier to doubt than to examine."
Walter Scott
8. sagacity - n. - quality of having keen and farsighted penetration and judgment (not dissimilar from perspicacity, to suggest that someone has sagacity is to suggest that she is wise enough to know what will follow in a series of events)
"War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives."
Friedrich Nietzsche
9. erudition - n. - extensive knowledge acquired chiefly from books
"If we steal thoughts from the moderns, it will be cried down as plagiarism; if from the ancients, it will be cried up as erudition."
Charles Caleb Colton
10. latent - adj. - present and capable of becoming - though not currently - visible, obvious, active, or symptomatic
"No matter what his position or experience in life, there is in everyone more latent than developed ability; far more unused than used power."
James Cash Penney (Yes, the real JC Penney. That guy)
All quotes taken from BrainyQuote.
"Truth never comes into the world but like a bastard, to the ignominy of him that brought her birth."
John Milton
2. manifest - v. - to make evident or certain by showing or displaying
"To me, acting is the most logical way for people's neuroses to manifest themselves, in this great need we all have to express ourselves."
James Dean
3. penitent - adj. - feeling or expressing humble or regretful pain or sorrow for sins or offenses
"The gods look in pleasure on penitent sinners."
Theodor Adorno
4. talisman - n. - an object held to act as a charm to avert evil and bring good fortune; something believed to hold magical powers
"Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air."
John Quincy Adams
5. epoch - n. - an extended period of time usually characterized by a distinctive development or by a memorable series of events
"The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e., the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force."
Karl Marx
6. avert - v. - to see coming and ward off; to avoid
"The New Deal is plainly an attempt to achieve a working socialism and avert a social collapse in America; it is extraordinarily parallel to the successive 'policies' and 'Plans' of the Russian experiment. Americans shirk the word 'socialism', but what else can one call it?"
H. G. Wells
7. incredulity - n. - state of disbelief
"There is a vulgar incredulity, which in historical matters, as well as in those of religion, finds it easier to doubt than to examine."
Walter Scott
8. sagacity - n. - quality of having keen and farsighted penetration and judgment (not dissimilar from perspicacity, to suggest that someone has sagacity is to suggest that she is wise enough to know what will follow in a series of events)
"War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives."
Friedrich Nietzsche
9. erudition - n. - extensive knowledge acquired chiefly from books
"If we steal thoughts from the moderns, it will be cried down as plagiarism; if from the ancients, it will be cried up as erudition."
Charles Caleb Colton
10. latent - adj. - present and capable of becoming - though not currently - visible, obvious, active, or symptomatic
"No matter what his position or experience in life, there is in everyone more latent than developed ability; far more unused than used power."
James Cash Penney (Yes, the real JC Penney. That guy)
All quotes taken from BrainyQuote.
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