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«It is the unbroken testimony of all history that alcoholic liquors have been used by the strongest, wisest, handsomest, and in every way best races of all times»
Author: George Saintsbury
(Critic, Historian)
| About:
Alcohol
| Keywords:
alcoholic, alcoholics, handsomest, liquors, races, testimony, unbroken
«I've imagined great victories, and I've imagined great races. The races are better.»
«I am obliged to confess that I do not regard the abolition of slavery as a means of warding off the struggle of the two races in the Southern states. The Negroes may long remain slaves without complaining; but if they are once raised to the level of freemen, they will soon revolt at being deprived of almost all their civil rights; and as they cannot become the equals of the whites, they will speedily show themselves as enemies.»
Author: Alexis de Tocqueville
(Historian, Political scientist)
| Keywords:
abolition, abolition of slavery, almost all, civil, civil rights, complaining, confess, deprived, deprived of, Enemy of the state, equals, freeman, freemen, Negroes, obliged, races, raised, revolt, show off, southern, Southern states, speedily, The Whites, warding, ward off, whites
«In the survival of favoured individuals and races, during the constantly-recurring struggle for existence, we see a powerful and ever-acting form of selection.»
Author: Charles Darwin
(Author, Naturalist)
| About:
Life
| Keywords:
races, recur, recurring, selection, selections
«It is generally admitted that with woman the powers of intuition, of rapid perception and perhaps of imitation, are more strongly marked than in man: but some, at least, of these faculties are characteristic of the lower races, and therefore of a pas»
Author: Charles Darwin
(Author, Naturalist)
| About:
Men and Women
| Keywords:
admitted, characteristic, faculties, imitation, intuition, marked, pas, races, rapid, rapids, strongly
«Listen, my friend, there are two races of beings. The masses teeming and happy /common clay, if you like /eating, breeding, working, counting their pennies; people who just live; ordinary people; people you can't imagine dead. And then there are the others /the noble ones, the heroes. The ones you can quite well imagine lying shot, pale and tragic; one minute triumphant with a guard of honor, and the next being marched away between two gendarmes.»
Author: Jean Anouilh
(Dramatist, Playwright, Screenwriter)
| Keywords:
breeding, clay, counting, eating away, eat away, gendarme, gendarmes, guard of honor, marched, masses, one minute, One Penny, ordinary people, Others The, pale, pennies, races, teem, teeming, teeming with, teems, The Masses, tragic, triumphant, Two Pence
«Maybe a nation that consumes as much booze and dope as we do and has our kind of divorce statistics should pipe down about ''character issues.'' Either that or just go ahead and determine the presidency with three-legged races and pie-eating contests. It would make better TV.»
Author: P. J. O'Rourke
(Humorist, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
booze, consumes, Contests, dope, go ahead, issues, legged, Our Kind, PIE, pipe, pipe down, presidency, races, the presidency, three-legged
«I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races - I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of making voters or jurors of Negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office,»
Author: Abraham Lincoln
(President)
| About:
Equality,
Politics,
Race,
Social service
| Keywords:
Black race, bringing, equality, favor, juror, jurors, Negroes, office, qualifies, qualify, qualifying, races, The Social, The White, voters
«MULATTO, n. A child of two races, ashamed of both.»
«LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder. This disease, like _caries_ and many other ailments, is prevalent only among civilized races living under artificial conditions; barbarous nations breathing pure air and eating simple food enjoy immunity from its ravages. It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the physician than to the patient.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
ailment, ailments, Air conditioning, barbarous, breathing, caries, Cary, curable, disorder, eating disorder, immunity, incurred, incurring, incurs, influences, physician, prevalent, pure and simple, races, ravage, ravaged, ravages, removal, temporary insanity
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