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«Hope is the expectation that something outside of ourselves, something or someone external, is going to come to our rescue and we will live happily ever after.»
Author: Dr. Robert Anthony
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Hope
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come to, Ever After, expectation, external, externals, happily, Happily Ever After, outside, rescue, rescues, rescuing
«A lawyer is a learned gentleman who rescues your estate from your enemies and keeps it himself»
«It's true that heroes are inspiring, but mustn't they also do some rescuing if they are to be worthy of their name? Would Wonder Woman matter if she only sent commiserating telegrams to the distressed?»
Author: Jeanette Winterson
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commiserate, commiserates, commiserating, distressed, inspiring, rescues, rescuing, telegram, telegrams, wonder woman
«The individual woman is required a thousand times a day to choose either to accept her appointed role and thereby rescue her good disposition out of the wreckage of her self-respect, or else follow an independent line of behavior and rescue her self-respect out of the wreckage of her good disposition.»
Author: Jeannette Rankin
(Politician)
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«In bed my real love has always been the sleep that rescued me by allowing me to dream.»
Author: Luigi Pirandello
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Writer)
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Inspirational
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allowing, rescued, rescues
«I thought of myself as a species of knight errant attacking dragons single-handedly and rescuing musical virtue in distress.»
Author: Virgil Thomson
(Composer)
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attacking, distress, dragons, errant, knight, Knight Errant, musical, rescues, rescuing, single-handedly
«I will be as harsh as truth, and as uncompromising as justice. On this subject, I do not wish to think, or speak, or write, with moderation. No! no! Tell a man whose house is on fire, to give a moderate alarm; tell him to moderately rescue his wife from the hand of the ravisher; tell the mother to gradually extricate her babe from the fire into which it has fallen; -- but urge me not to use moderation in a cause like the present. I am in earnest -- I will not equivocate -- I will not excuse -- I will not retreat a single inch -- AND I WILL BE HEARD.»
Author: William Lloyd Garrison
(Abolitionist, Activist, Journalist)
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alarm, babe, Cause for Alarm, earnest, equivocate, extricate, extricated, gradually, harsh, inch, in earnest, moderate, moderately, on fire, ravisher, rescue, rescues, rescuing, retreat, uncompromising, urge, with moderation
«But they for whom I am the supreme goal, who do all work renouncing self for me and meditate on me with single-hearted devotion, these I will swiftly rescue from death's vast sea, for their consciousness has entered into me.»
Author: Bhagavad Gita
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devotion, entered, hearted, meditate, renouncing, rescue, rescues, rescuing, swiftly
«In labor news, longshoremen walked off the piers today; rescue operations are continuing»
Author: George Carlin
(Actor, Author, Comedian)
| Keywords:
continuing, in labor, longshoreman, longshoremen, operations, rescue, rescues, rescuing, walked, walk off
«There is no other like the Lord - there is no equal to Him. He embellishes this world and the world hereafter, and He gives us our permanent home there. He rescues us from the world-ocean; never again do we have to run the cycle of reincarnation.»
Author: Sri Guru Granth Sahib
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cycle, embellishes, equal to, hereafter, reincarnation, rescues
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