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How to use the word impersonal in a Sentence?

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Money is a new form of slavery, and distinguishable from the old simply by the fact that it is impersonal -- that there is no human relation between master and slave.

– Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoi

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4 months ago

The theater, bringing impersonal masks to life, is only for those who are virile enough to create new life: either as a conflict of passions subtler than those we already know, or as a complete new character.

– Alfred Jarry

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9 years ago

One aspect of modern life which has gone far to stifle men is the rapid growth of tremendous corporations. Enormous spiritual sacrifices are made in the transformation of shopkeepers into employees. The disappearance of free enterprise has led to a submergence of the individual in the impersonal corporation in much the same manner as he has been submerged in the state in other lands.

– William O. Douglas

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Now, the vicissitudes that afflict the individual have their source in society. It is this situation that has given currency to the phrase social forces. Personal relations have given way to impersonal ones. The Great Society has arrived and the task of our generation is to bring it under control. The study of how it is to be done is the function of politics.

– Aneurin Bevan

added by anonymous
10 years ago

To transform a grimace into a sound sounds impossible, yet it is possible to transform a vision into music, to go outside an enslaved personality, to become impersonal by transforming into sand, into water, into light.

– Dejan Stojanovic

added by anonymous
11 years ago

What omniscience has music! So absolutely impersonal, yet every sufferer feels his secret sorrow soothed.

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

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13 years ago

The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor.

– Hubert H. Humphrey

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13 years ago

Who has not hopedTo outrage an enemy's dignityWho has not been sweptBy the wish to hurtAnd who has not thought that the impersonal worldDeserves no better than to be destroyedBy one fabulous sign of his displeasure

– J. Bronowski

added by anonymous
14 years ago

The universe seems wondrous to me, with or without God. It has powerful lines and uncompromising ways. Patience and time sit like sages on the planets, strong and impersonal. There is a stark beauty to all of this.

– Real Live Preacher

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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