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Letter "C" » clumsy
«I have something here for you. Your father wanted you to have this when you were old enough, but your uncle wouldn't allow it. He feared you might follow old Obi-Wan on some damn fool idealistic crusade like your father did. It's your father's lightsaber. This is the weapon of a Jedi Knight. Not as clumsy or as random as a blaster, but an elegant weapon for a more civilized age. For over a thousand generations, the Jedi Knights were the guardians of peace and justice in the Old Republic. Before the dark times, before the Empire.»
Author: Alec Guinness
| Keywords:
blaster, clumsy, crusade, crusades, crusading, dark ages, elegant, guardians, idealistic, Jedi Knight, Jedi Knights, knight, knights, obi, Old Enough, random, republic, The Crusades, The Empire, uncle, WAN
«In order to have an enemy, one must be somebody. One must be a force before he can be resisted by another force. A malicious enemy is better than a clumsy friend.»
Author: Anne Sophie Swetchine
| About:
Enemies
| Keywords:
clumsy, in good order, malicious, resisted
«Suicide may also be regarded as an experiment -- a question which man puts to Nature, trying to force her to answer. The question is this: What change will death produce in a man's existence and in his insight into the nature of things? It is a clumsy experiment to make; for it involves the destruction of the very consciousness which puts the question and awaits the answer.»
Author: Arthur Schopenhauer
(Philosopher)
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awaited, awaits, clumsy, experiment, insight, involves, putting to death, regarded, The Nature of Things
«?Feeling important makes one heavy, clumsy and vain. To be a warrior one needs to be light and fluid.?»
«What a book a devil's chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature!»
Author: Charles Darwin
(Author, Naturalist)
| Keywords:
blundering, chaplain, clumsy, horribly, wasteful, write on
«I can do everything with ease on the stage, whereas in real life I feel too big and clumsy. So I didn't choose acting. It chose me.»
«A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements and clumsy hands. so the librarian protects the books not only against mankind but also against nature and devotes his life to this war with the forces of oblivion.»
Author: Umberto Eco
(Critic, Novelist)
| Keywords:
Books not, clumsy, devotes, elements, fragile, librarian, librarians, oblivion, protects, the books, The Elements, The Librarian
«Business life, whether among ourselves or with other people, is even a sharp struggle for success. It will be none the less so in the future. Without competition we would be clinging to the clumsy antiquated processes of farming and manufacture and the methods of business of long ago, and the twentieth would be no further advanced than the eighteenth century.»
Author: William McKinley
(Politician)
| Keywords:
advanced, antiquated, business life, business methods, clinging, clumsy, competition, eighteenth, eighteenth century, farming, long ago, manufacture, methods, processes, sharp, twentieth
«Everything that is ponderous, vicious and pompously clumsy, all long-winded and wearying kinds of style, are developed in great variety among Germans»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| Keywords:
clumsy, developed, Germans, long-winded, pompously, ponderous, variety, vicious, wearying, winded
«Men always want to be a woman's first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We woman have a more subtle instinct about things. What we like is to be a man's last romance.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
First love
| Keywords:
clumsy, First Love, romance, subtle
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