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“The grand stye arises in poetry, when a noble nature, poetically gifted, treats with simplicity or with severity a serious subject.”

Poetry Subjects Serious Treats Simplicity Noble Arise Gifted Severity Serious Subjects

Author:Matthew Arnold

“It is not fair to treat as serious that which is only said in joke.”

Said Serious Jokes Fairs Treats Not Fair

Author:Plautus

“The sense of ownership is one reason why abuse tends to get worse as relationships get more serious. The more history and commitment that develop in the couple, the more the abuser comes to think of his partner as a prized object. Possessiveness is at the core of the abuser's mindset, the spring from which all the other streams spout; on some level he feels that he owns you and therefore has the right to treat you as he sees fit.”

Thinking Feels Reason Levels Objects Serious Couple Fit Spring Commitment Treats Abuse Mindset Partners Core Reason Why Streams Ownership Abusers Possessiveness

Author:Lundy Bancroft

“The dynamic principle of fantasy is play, a characteristic also of the child, and as such it appears inconsistent with the principle of serious work. But without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable. It is therefore short-sighted to treat fantasy, on account of its risky or unacceptable nature, as a thing of little worth.”

Children Littles Play Imagination Principles Fantasy Creative Serious Birth Treats Accounts Debt Characteristics Inconsistent Creative Work Memories Dreams Reflections Short Sighted Serious Work

Book:Psychological Types

Source: Psychological Types

“That's the Irish all over -- they treat a joke as a serious thing and a serious thing as a joke.”

Serious Jokes Treats Serious Things

Book:Seven Plays

Source: Seven Plays

“A father would do well, as his son grows up, and is capable of it, to talk familiarly with him; nay, ask his advice, and consult with him about those things wherein he has any knowledge or understanding. By this, the father will gain two things, both of great moment. The sooner you treat him as a man, the sooner he will begin to be one; and if you admit him into serious discourses sometimes with you, you will insensibly raise his mind above the usual amusements of youth, and those trifling occupations which it is commonly wasted in.”

“A real litmus test for me is how people treat someone who is waiting on them. That's a dealbreaker for me.If I were on the verge of getting into a serious relationship and I saw that person be mean to a waiter... I'm out.”

People Ifs Mean Persons Real Waiting Saws Serious Tests Treats Verge Waiter Serious Relationship

Author:Steven Soderbergh

“So I can go and let out everything that I feel about every bogus weekly cover, every single bogus skit, every single rumor and barber shop-everything that people feel is ok to treat celebrities like zoo animals, or act like what they're saying is not serious, or their lives are not serious or their dreams are not serious.”

People Feels I Can Dream Animal Serious Treats Shops Rumor Zoos Barbers Skit Barber Shop

Author:Kanye West

“Once we truly understand that our waking experience is dreamlike, we no longer have to treat life as a serious problem.”

Problem Serious Treats Waking

Book:Hidden mind of freedom

Source: Hidden mind of freedom

“Do we refuse to forgive? God, too, will refuse to forgive us. As we treat our neighbors, so also does God treat us. The forgiveness or unforgiveness of your sins, then, and hence also your salvation or destruction, depend on you yourself. For without forgiveness of sins there is no salvation. You can see for yourself how serious it is.”

Doe Sin Serious Depends Destruction Treats Salvation Forgiving Refuse Neighbor Forgiveness Of Sins

Author:Tikhon of Zadonsk