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«Parents, however old they and we may grow to be, serve among other things to shield us from a sense of our doom. As long as they are around, we can avoid the fact of our mortality; we can still be innocent children.»
«The doom of a nation can be averted only by a storm of flowing passion, but only those who are passionate themselves can arouse passion in others.»
Author: Adolf Hitler
(Chancellor)
| Keywords:
arouse, arousing, avert, averted, averting, averts, doom, dooms, flowing, passionate, storm
«The best that we can do is to be kindly and helpful toward our friends and fellow passengers who are clinging to the same speck of dirt while we are drifting side by side to our common doom»
Author: Clarence Darrow
(Lawyer, Speaker, Writer)
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clinging, dirt, doom, drifting, helpful, kindly, passenger, passengers, side by side, speck, specks
«The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates. Not only does he picture us caught in a tremendous man-made or God-made trap from which there is no escape, but we must also listen to him day in, day out, describe how the trap is inexorably closing. To such prophecies the human race, as presently bred and educated and situated, is incapable of listening. So some dance and some immolate themselves as human torches; some take drugs and some artists spill their creativity in sets of randomly placed dots on a white ground.»
Author: Margaret Mead
| Keywords:
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«Be born anywhere, little embyro novelist, but do not be born under the shadow of a great creed, not under the burden of original sin, not under the doom of salvation. Go out and be born among the gypsies or thieves or among happy workaday people who live in the sun and do not think about their souls.»
«It is the still, small voice that the soul heeds, not the deafening blasts of doom.»
«God help you if you are an ugly girl, 'course too pretty is also your doom, 'cause everyone harbors a secret hatred for the prettiest girl in the room.»
«It is the just doom of laziness and gluttony to be inactive without ease and drowsy without tranquility»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
doom, drowsy, gluttony, inactive, laziness, tranquility
«Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
bears, doom, Edge of, the edge
«Life is too short to spend your precious time trying to convince a person who wants to live in gloom and doom otherwise. Give lifting that person your best shot, but don't hang around long enough for his or her bad attitude to pull you down. Instead, surround yourself with optimistic people.»
Author: Zig Ziglar
(Author, Speaker)
| Keywords:
bad person, convince, doom, dooms, gloom, hang, hang around, lifting, long shot, optimistic, otherwise, precious, pull, pull down, shoot down, shot, surround, Too Short
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