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Letter "A" » arouse
«Do not arouse disdainful mind when you prepare a broth of wild grasses; do not arouse joyful mind when you prepare a fine cream soup»
«If we define pornography as any message from any communication medium that is intended to arouse sexual excitement, then it is clear that most advertisements are covertly pornographic.»
Author: Philip Slater
(Actor, Businessman, Merchant, Professor, Screenwriter, Sociologist, Spiritual mentor)
| About:
Pornography
| Keywords:
advertisements, arouse, covertly, excitement, intended, medium, pornographic, pornography
«Don't get the impression that you arouse my anger. You see, one can only be angry with those he respects.»
«A good sermon should be like a woman's skirt: short enough to arouse interest but long enough to cover the essentials.»
Author: Ronald Knox
(Theologian, Writer)
| About:
Sermons
| Keywords:
arouse, arousing, cover, essentials, sermon, skirt, skirted
«Hope arouses, as nothing else can arouse, a passion for the possible.»
«If the Revolution has the right to destroy bridges and art monuments whenever necessary, it will stop still less from laying its hand on any tendency in art which, no matter how great its achievement in form, threatens to disintegrate the revolutionary environment or to arouse the internal forces of the Revolution, that is, the proletariat, the peasantry and the intelligentsia, to a hostile opposition to one another. Our standard is, clearly, political, imperative and intolerant.»
Author: Leon Trotsky
| Keywords:
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«By whatever means it is accomplished, the prime business of a play is to arouse the passions of its audience so that by the route of passion may be opened up new relationships between a man and men, and between men and Man. Drama is akin to the other»
Author: Arthur Miller
(Playwright)
| Keywords:
akin, arouse, Passion play, prime, route, The Passions
«A teacher who can arouse a feeling for one single good action, for one single good poem, accomplishes more than he who fills our memory with rows and rows of natural objects, classified with name and form»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Teachers and teaching
| Keywords:
accomplishes, arouse, arousing, classified, classify, fills, for one, Good poem, natural action, objects, poem, rowed, rows
«An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.»
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Baptist Minister, Civil-Rights Leader)
| Keywords:
accepts, arouse, arousing, breaks, community, conscience, expressing, higher law, highest, imprisonment, individual, injustice, injustices, in reality, law, penalties, penalty, respect, tells, The Law, unjust, willingly
«Never awake me when you have good news to announce, because with good news nothing presses; but when you have bad news, arouse me immediately, for then there is not an instant to be lost.»
Author: Napoleon Bonaparte
(Emperor, General, Politician)
| About:
Events
| Keywords:
announce, announces, announcing, arouse, arousing, awake, Bad News, Good News, immediately, instant, In the press, news, presses, press on
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