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Letter "D" » dragon
«The struggle is confused; our knight wins by no clean thrust of lance or sword, but the dragon somehow poops out, and decent democracy is victor.»
Author: Norman Thomas
(Social Reformer)
| About:
Struggle
| Keywords:
dragon, knight, lance, lances, poop, poops, The Victor, The Victors, thrust, victor
«The struggle against demagoguery scarcely fits the St George-against-the-dragon myth Our democratic St George goes out rather reluctantly with armor awry.»
Author: Norman Thomas
(Social Reformer)
| Keywords:
awry, demagoguery, dragon, fits, goes out, reluctantly, scarcely, St George
«The thing to remember about fathers is, they're men. A girl has to keep it in mind: They are dragon-seekers, bent on improbable rescues. Scratch any father, you find someone chock-full of qualms and romantic terrors, believing change is a threat -- like your first shoes with heels on, like your first bicycle I it took such months to get.»
«It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age; but, if so, it will be necessary first to slay the dragon that guards the door, and this dragon is religion»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Mankind,
Religion
| Keywords:
Age to Age, come of age, door, dragon, First to, golden, Golden Age, guards, mankind, necessary, on guard, on your guard, possible, religion, slay, The Golden Age, threshold, thresholds
«Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.»
«Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon hath devoured me, he hath crushed me, he hath made me an empty vessel, he hath swallowed me up like a dragon, he hath filled his belly with my delicates, he hath cast me out.»
«Thou shalt tread upon the lion and adder: the young lion and the dragon shalt thou trample under feet.»
«The man who fights too long against dragons becomes a dragon himself»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| Keywords:
against, Against the man, becomes, before long, dragon, dragons, fights, long, man, The Man, The Man Who, too, with longing
«St George he was for England, / And before he killed the dragon / He drank a pint of English ale / Out of an English flagon.»
«No sooner had Jesus knocked over the dragon of superstition then Paul boldly set it on its legs again in the name of Jesus»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
boldly, dragon, knocked, Paul, Paul A, Paul I
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