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«Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situations of experience its own full and unique meaning.»
Author: John Dewey
(Educator, Philosopher, Psychologist)
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participation, situations, wrest, wrested
«Thou shalt not wrest judgment; thou shalt not respect persons, neither take a gift: for a gift doth blind the eyes of the wise, and pervert the words of the righteous.»
«Every day they wrest my words: all their thoughts are against me for evil.»
«And account that the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also according to the wisdom given unto him hath written unto you; / As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.»
«As a man can drink water from any side of a full tank, so the skilled theologian can wrest from any scripture that which will serve his purpose.»
Author: Bhagavad Gita
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scripture, skilled, tank, tanked, tanks, theologian, tink, wrest, wrested
«There could be no honor in a sure success, but much might be wrested from a sure defeat.»
«PLUNDER, v. To take the property of another without observing the decent and customary reticences of theft. To effect a change of ownership with the candid concomitance of a brass band. To wrest the wealth of A from B and leave C lamenting a vanishing opportunity.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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«Thou shalt not wrest the judgment of thy poor in his cause.»
«Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil; neither shalt thou speak in a cause to decline after many to wrest judgment: / Neither shalt thou countenance a poor man in his cause.»
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