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Letter "I" » irreverence
«It is important that students bring a certain rafamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it»
«I have a total irreverence for anything connected with society, except that which makes the road safer, the beer stronger, the old men and women warmer in the winter, and happier in the summer»
Author: Brendan Behan
| About:
Society
| Keywords:
connected, happier, irreverence, Old Road, safer, warmer
«Impiety, n. Your irreverence toward my deity»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
deity, impieties, impiety, irreverence
«If we had reverence for our life, our life would take at once religious form. But as it is, in our filthy irreverence, it remains a disgusting slough, where each one of us goes so thoroughly disguised in dirt that we are all alike and indistinguishab»
Author: D.H. Lawrence
(Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Life
| Keywords:
disguised, filthy, irreverence, slough
«True irreverence is disrespect for another man's god»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| About:
Irreverence
| Keywords:
disrespect, disrespected, irreverence
«Irreverence is the champion of liberty and its only sure defense»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| About:
Irreverence,
Liberty
| Keywords:
champion, irreverence
«The greatest gift that Oxford gives her sons is, I truly believe, a genial irreverence toward learning, and from that irreverence love may spring.»
«I think that Richard Nixon will go down in history as a true folk hero, who struck a vital blow to the whole diseased concept of the revered image and gave the American virtue of irreverence and skepticism back to the people.»
Author: William S. Burroughs
| Keywords:
American history, diseased, folk, folk hero, go down, irreverence, Nixon, revered, revering, Richard, Richard Nixon, skepticism, strike back
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