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«Not wishing to be disturbed over moral issues of the political economy, Americans cling to the notion that the government is a sort of automatic machine, regulated by the balancing of competing interests.»
Author: C. Wright Mills
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«No vision and you perish; No Ideal, and you're lost; Your heart must ever cherish Some faith at any cost. Some hope, some dream to cling to, Some rainbow in the sky, Some melody to sing to, Some service that is high.»
Author: Harriet Du Autermont
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at any cost, cherish, cling, cling to, cost, High Hopes, melodies, melody, perish, rainbow
«I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone... they will be forced to deal with pain.»
Author: James Arthur Baldwin
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
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cling, cling to, clung, deal, forced, gone, hate, hates, imagine, reasons, stubbornly
«There is nothing to which men cling more tenaciously than the privileges of class»
«Patience permits us to cling to our faith in the Lord when we are tossed about by suffering as if by surf. When the undertow grasps us we will realize that we are somehow being carried forward even as we tumble. We are actually being -helped even as we cry for help.»
«Men never cling to their dreams with such tenacity as at the moment when they are losing faith in them, and know it, but do not dare yet to confess it to themselves.»
«Nothing is quite so wretchedly corrupt as an aristocracy which has lost its power but kept its wealth and which still has endless leisure to devote to nothing but banal enjoyments. All its great thoughts and passionate energy are things of the past, and nothing but a host of petty, gnawing vices now cling to it like worms to a corpse.»
Author: Alexis de Tocqueville
(Historian, Political scientist)
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aristocracy, banal, cling, cling to, corpse, corrupt, devote, enjoyments, gnawing, gnaws, host, passionate, petty, worms, wretchedly
«Men cling to life even at the cost of enduring great misfortune»
«Rulers, who neither see, nor feel, nor know, but leech-like to their fainting country cling, till they drop, blind in blood, without a blow, -- a people starved and stabbed in the untilled field...»
«Superstition, bigotry and prejudice, ghosts though they are, cling tenaciously to life; they are shades armed with tooth and claw. They must be grappled with unceasingly, for it is a fateful part of human destiny that it is condemned to wage perpetual war against ghosts. A shade is not easily taken by the throat and destroyed.»
Author: Victor Hugo
(Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
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armed, bigotry, claw, clawing, cling, condemned, fateful, ghosts, grapple, grappled, grappling, perpetual, prejudice, shade, shades, superstition, tenaciously, The Throat, throat, tooth, unceasingly
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