- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
Acute Quotes
Sharp thinking for sudden, pressing moments.
These acute quotes praise the keen observer who notices what others miss, contrasting sharp insight with the vagueness so often mistaken for depth. Browse Crisis quotes for more on urgent turning points.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Dispassionate
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are two men in Tolstoy. He is a mystic and he is also a realist. He is addicted to the practice of a pietism that for all its sincerity is nothing if not vague and sentimental; and he is the most acute and dispassionate of observers, the most profound and earnest student of character and emotion.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
If some really acute observer made as much of egotism as Freud has made of sex, people would forget a good deal about sex and find the explanation for everything in egotism.
- Crisis
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- Nov 07, 2020
Although this crisis in some ways started in the United States, it is a global crisis. We bear a substantial share of the responsibility for what has happened, but factors that made the crisis so acute and so difficult to contain lie in a broader set of global forces that built up in the years before the start of our current troubles.
- Canada
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- Nov 07, 2020
Conceived as a short-term remedy to the occasional ailment of acute labour shortages in key industries, the indentured-labour service had to be dismantled by the Conservatives owing to its inevitably scandalous abuse by disreputable employers. By 2012, there were 338,000 temporary foreign workers in Canada.
- Gym
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- Nov 07, 2020
I hated to see tabloids with my pictures where I looked so plump. I visited so many doctors, clinics, hit the gym, hired an expensive trainer but nothing worked. I went into an acute depression. Its then that somebody advised me to take up Yoga.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The fear of vomiting, which for me is one of the most original and most acute of my fears, is actually fairly common. Emetophobia, it's called, and by some estimates, it's the fifth most common specific phobia.
- Dark
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- Nov 07, 2020
For example, the opposition between acute and grave phonemes has the capacity to suggest an image of bright and dark, of pointed and rounded, of thin and thick, of light and heavy, etc.
- Isolation
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured. The only solution known to science is to provide the patient with an isolation room, where he can endure the acute stages in private and where food can be poked in to him with a stick.
- Eyes
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think we all suffer from acute blindness at times. Life is a constant journey of trying to open your eyes. I'm just beginning my journey, and my eyes aren't fully open yet.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
The post-totalitarian malady has taken its most acute form in Romania. And it has taken place for very specific reasons. The repression here has been more cruel, more brutal, than in other states caught in the inferno of a 'socialist paradise.'
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
The world can now maintain an acute infection in a way that is unprecedented in the history of life on our planet.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes, I think the best kind of poem is one in which there is an acute balance between what is humorous and that which is very serious. That balance is very hard to strike. But it can be done.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
The risk from terrorism remains acute and the private market cannot continue to operate without a government backstop.
- Devil
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- Nov 07, 2020
None speak of the bravery, the might, or the intellect of Jesus; but the devil is always imagined as a being of acute intellect, political cunning, and the fiercest courage. These universal and instinctive tendencies of the human mind reveal much.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
South Sudan is my home, and I am humbled to be in a position to help those suffering from lack of access to basic needs, especially the children facing severe acute malnutrition.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020