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«When it comes time to do your own life, you either perpetuate your childhood or you stand on it and finally kick it out from under.»
«Fear can supplant our real problems only to the extent - unwilling either to assimilate or to exhaust it - we perpetuate it within ourselves like a temptation and enthrone it at the very heart of our solitude.»
Author: Emile M. Cioran
| Keywords:
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«My opposition [To Interviews] lies in the fact that offhand answers have little value or grace of expression, and that such oral give and take helps to perpetuate the decline of the English language.»
Author: James Thurber
(Writer)
| Keywords:
decline, English language, give and take, interviewed, interviewing, interviews, off-hand, offhand, opposition, oral, perpetuate, perpetuated, perpetuating, The Decline, the English, The Interview
«The pursuit of happiness, which American citizens are obliged to undertake, tends to involve them in trying to perpetuate the moods, tastes and aptitudes of youth.»
Author: Malcolm Muggeridge
| Keywords:
aptitudes, involve, moods, obliged, perpetuate, perpetuating, tastes, tends, tends to, The Pursuit of Happiness, undertake
«For it is the suffering flesh, it is suffering, it is death, that lovers perpetuate upon the earth. Love is at once the brother, son, and father of death, which is its sister, mother, and daughter. And thus it is that in the depth of love there is a depth of eternal despair, out of which springs hope and consolation.»
Author: Miguel de Unamuno
(Author, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
consolation, Father of, mother Earth, perpetuate, The Suffering
«Not only do I pray for it, on the score of human dignity, but I can clearly foresee that nothing but the rooting out of slavery can perpetuate the existence of our union, by consolidating it in a common bond of principle»
Author: George Washington
(President)
| Keywords:
bond, consolidate, consolidated, consolidates, consolidating, foresee, Human dignity, perpetuate, perpetuating, rooting, score, The Score
«Wherefore, Nietzsche concluded that the chief characteristic of a moral system was its tendency to perpetuate itself unchanged, and to destroy all who questioned it or denied it»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| Keywords:
characteristic, concluded, Nietzsche, perpetuate, perpetuated, perpetuating, questioned, tendency, unchanged, wherefore
«When a government becomes powerful it is destructive, extravagant and violent; it is an usurer which takes bread from innocent mouths and deprives honorable men of their substance, for votes with which to perpetuate itself»
Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero
(Lawyer, Orator, Scholar, Statesman, Writer)
| About:
Government,
Power
| Keywords:
deprives, destructive, extravagant, honorable, innocent, mouths, perpetuate, perpetuated, perpetuating, substance, usurer, violent, votes
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