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«America is the world's living myth. There's no sense of wrong when you kill an American or blame America for some local disaster. This is our function, to be character types, to embody recurring themes that people can use to comfort themselves, justify themselves and so on. We're here to accommodate. Whatever people need, we provide. A myth is a useful thing.»
Author: Don Delillo
(Novelist)
| Keywords:
accommodate, and so on, local, recur, recurring, themes, types
«Real life isn't always going to be perfect or go our way, but the recurring acknowledgement of what is working in our lives can help us not only to survive but surmount our difficulties.»
Author: Sarah Ban Breathnach
| About:
Life
| Keywords:
acknowledgement, difficulties, real life, recur, recurring, surmount, surmounted, surmounting, survive, working
«Sir, Sunday morning, although recurring at regular and well foreseen intervals, always seems to take this railway by surprise.»
Author: William S. Gilbert
(Lyricist)
| Keywords:
foreseen, intervals, railway, railways, recur, recurring, regular, Sunday best
«In the survival of favoured individuals and races, during the constantly-recurring struggle for existence, we see a powerful and ever-acting form of selection.»
Author: Charles Darwin
(Author, Naturalist)
| About:
Life
| Keywords:
races, recur, recurring, selection, selections
«We must recognize that beneath the superficial classifications of sex and race the same potentialities exist, recurring generation after generation, only to perish because society has no place for them»
Author: Margaret Mead
| About:
Potential
| Keywords:
beneath, classification, classifications, perish, potentialities, potentiality, recur, recurring, Sex and, superficial
«Events tend to recur in cycles...»
«I bet one legend that keeps recurring throughout history, in every culture, is the story of Popeye.»
Author: Jack Handy
(Writer)
| Keywords:
bet, culture, legend, recur, recurring, The Legend, The Story, throughout
«O Memory, thou fond deceiver, Still importunate and vain, To former joys recurring ever, And turning all the past to pain»
Author: Oliver Goldsmith
(Dramatist, Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
importunate, recur, recurring
«He is a benefactor of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into short sentences, that may be easily impressed on the memory, and so recur habitually to the mind.»
«Innocent amusements are such as excite moderately, and such as produce a cheerful frame of mind, not boisterous mirth; such as refresh, instead of exhausting, the system; such as recur frequently, rather than continue long; such as send us back to our daily duties invigorated in body and spirit; such as we can partake of in the presence and society of respectable friends; such as consist with and are favorable to a grateful piety; such as are chastened by self-respect, and are accompanied with the consciousness that life has a higher end than to be amused.»
Author: William Ellery Channing
(Author, Clergyman)
| Keywords:
boisterous, excite, frame of mind, mirth, recur, refresh
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