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«Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock.»
Author: Ben Hecht (Novelist, Playwright, Writer) | About: Trying | Keywords: newspapers, second hand
«If you can remember dreams of flying and soaring like a bird, or dancing, or singing more perfectly than you ever thought possible, you know that no second -hand accounts of such events could ever give you the thrill you felt in the dream»
«What is Time... That you speak of it so subserviently? Are we to be the slaves of the sun, that second-hand, overrated knob of gilt, or of his sister, that fatuous circle of silver paper? A curse upon their ridiculous dictatorship!»
«A recent conversation: Dubya: Look at the clock, time is racing! Cheney: That's the second hand, George.»
«Marrying an old bachelor is like buying second-hand furniture.»
«In religion and politics people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue but have taken them at second-hand from other»
«Nations do not think, they only feel. They get their feelings at second hand through their temperaments, not their brains. A nation can be brought / by force of circumstances, not argument / to reconcile itself to any kind of government or religion that can be devised; in time it will fit itself to the required conditions; later it will prefer them and will fiercely fight for them.»
«A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand.»
Author: Samuel Butler | Keywords: cultured, second hand
«Learning is the knowledge of that which is not generally known to others, and which we can only derive at second-hand from books or other artificial sources. The knowledge of that which is before us, or about us, which appeals to our experience, passions, and pursuits, to the bosom and businesses of men, is not learning. Learning is the knowledge of that which none but the learned know.»
Author: William Hazlitt (Writer) | Keywords: About us, second hand

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