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A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself.
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A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.
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A traveler of taste will notice that the wise are polite all over the world, but the fool only at home.
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A widespread taste for pornography means that nature is alerting us to some threat of extinction.
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Academic Marxists, with their elitist sense of superiority to popular taste, are the biggest snobs in America.
Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992) -
All of life is a dispute over taste and tasting.
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All the diamonds in this world
That mean anything to me
Are conjured up
by wind and sunlight sparkling on the sea
I ran aground in a harbor town
Lost the taste for being free
Thank God he sent some gull chased ship
To carry me to sea...Salt,Sun and Time (1974) All the Diamonds in the World, Track 1 -
At bottom, to be colored means that one has been caught in some utterly unbelievable cosmic joke, a joke so hideous and in such bad taste that it defeats all categories and definitions.
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Benefits should be conferred gradually; and in that way they will taste better.
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Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.
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Between good sense and good taste there lies the difference between a cause and its effect.
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Bipartisanship is really tough to achieve when everyone on both sides is left with a bad, bad taste in their mouths.
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But just as delicate fare does not stop you from craving for saveloys, so tried and exquisite friendship does not take away your taste for something new and dubious.
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Children are born true scientists. They spontaneously experiment and experience and reexperience again. They select, combine, and test, seeking to find order in their experiences - which is the mostest? which is the leastest? They smell, taste, bite, and touch-test for hardness, softness, springiness, roughness, smoothness, coldness, warmness: they heft, shake, punch, squeeze, push, crush, rub, and try to pull things apart.
Richard Buckminster Fuller
American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, and inventor (1895 - 1983) -
Designs in connection with postage stamps and coinage may be described, I think, as the silent ambassadors on national taste.
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Do not discourage your children from hoarding, if they have a taste to it; whoever lays up his penny rather than part with it for a cake, at least is not the slave of gross appetite; and shows besides a preference always to be esteemed, of the future to the present moment.
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Errors of taste are very often the outward sign of a deep fault of sensibility.
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