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«Three hundred years ago a prisoner condemned to the Tower of London carved on the wall of his cell this sentiment to keep up his spirits during his long imprisonment: 'It is not adversity that kills, but the impatience with which we bear adversity»
Author: Father James Keller
| Keywords:
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«We signal the captain, taking time out against the wall. He frowns. He groans. His feet hurt. His ulcer rages. He hates his wife. The risotto will take 25 minutes. Lasagna will take even longer.»
«Some people like my advice so much that they frame it upon the wall instead of using it.»
«The hope of free man in a frightened world is the values which man puts ahead of inventions when his back is to the wall. These values are beauty, truth, goodness and having a faith, all of which are bombproof.»
Author: Ralph W. Sockman
| About:
Freedom,
Value
| Keywords:
bombproof, free man, frightened, inventions, The Wall
«There are days when solitude is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall.»
Author: Sidonie Gabrielle
| About:
Solitude
| Keywords:
beat, bitter, headier, heady, intoxicate, intoxicates, intoxicating, poison, The Wall, tonic, tonics, wall, wine
«Two prisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. The wall is the thing which separates them but is also their means of communication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.»
Author: Simone Weil
(Activist, Mystic, Philosopher)
| About:
Communication,
God,
Meaning
| Keywords:
adjoin, adjoining, communicate, communication, knocking, knockings, link, prisoners, separates, separation, The Wall, wall
«The function of the prosecutor under the federal Constitution is not to tack as many skins of victims as possible against the wall. His function is to vindicate the rights of the people as expressed in the laws and give those accused of crime a fair trial.»
Author: William Orville Douglas
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accused, as many, constitution, expressed, Federal, federal constitution, prosecutor, prosecutors, skins, tack, tacked, tacks, The Federal, The Wall, trial, victims, vindicate, vindicated, wall
«So will I break down the wall that ye have daubed with untempered morter, and bring it down to the ground, so that the foundation thereof shall be discovered, and it shall fall, and ye shall be consumed in the midst thereof: and ye shall know that I am the LORD.»
«Once more into the breach, dear friends, once more; Or close the wall up with our English dead!»
«The weakest goes to the wall.»
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