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Letter "B" » burying ground
«If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.»
Author: Emile Zola
(Activist, Critic, Novelist)
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blow up, bursts, bury, burying ground, explosive, explosives, gather, shut up
«And the bones of Joseph, which the children of Israel brought up out of Egypt, buried they in Shechem, in a parcel of ground which Jacob bought of the sons of Hamor the father of Shechem for an hundred pieces of silver: and it became the inheritance of the children of Joseph.»
«And the slain of the LORD shall be at that day from one end of the earth even unto the other end of the earth: they shall not be lamented, neither gathered, nor buried; they shall be dung upon the ground.»
«We have gone forth from our shores repeatedly over the last hundred years and we've done this as recently as the last year in Afghanistan and put wonderful young men and women at risk, many of whom have lost their lives, and we have asked for nothing except enough ground to bury them in.»
Author: Colin Powell
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Afghanistan, at risk, bury, burying ground, in Afghanistan, last year, recently, repeatedly, shores
«Think of the fierce energy concentrated in an acorn! You bury it in the ground, and it explodes into an oak! Bury a sheep, and nothing happens but decay.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
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acorn, acorns, burying ground, concentrated, explodes
«A library is but the soul's burying ground. It is a land of shadows.»
«I'd like to be buried Indian-style, where they put you up on a high rack, above the ground. That way, you could get hit by meteorites and not even feel it.»
Author: Jack Handy
(Writer)
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buried, burying ground, Higher Ground, high style, hit, Indian, rack, racked, racking, racks, style, the rack, up on
«Life, to me, is like a quiet forest pool, one that needs a direct hit from a big rock half-buried in the ground. You pull and you pull, but you can't get the rock out of the ground. So you give it a good kick, but you lose your balance and go skidding down the hill toward the pool. Then out comes a big Hawaiian man who was screwing his wife beside the pool because they thought it was real pretty. He tells you to get out of there, but you start faking it, like you're talking Hawaiian, and then he gets mad and chases you...»
«You do not know the Name of the Lord. You fool - you shall regret and repent in the end! You bury your temporary wealth in the ground, but how can you love that which is temporary?»
«All the spiritual teachers, their disciples and the rulers of the world shall be buried under the ground. The emperors shall also pass away; God alone is Eternal.»
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