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«The basic difference between an ordinary man and a warrior is that a warrior takes everything as a challenge while an ordinary man takes everything either as a blessing or a curse»
«They are the greatest curse of all great men, daughters»
«The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their strength /each asking from the other instead of finding pleasure in giving. It is even more deceptive to dream of gaining through the child a plenitude, a warmth, a value, which one is unable to create for oneself; the child brings joy only to the woman who is capable of disinterestedly desiring the happiness of another, to one who without being wrapped up in self seeks to transcend her own existence.»
Author: Simone de Beauvoir
(Writer)
| Keywords:
asking, curse, deceptive, desiring, disinterestedly, find oneself, gaining, individuals, joined, plenitude, seeks, self-seeking, transcend, unable, warmth, wrapped, wrapped up
«Sometimes it is better to light a flamethrower than curse the darkness»
«Then said his wife unto him, Dost thou still retain thine integrity? curse God, and die.»
«The divide of race has been America's constant curse. Each new wave of immigrants gives new targets to old prejudices. Prejudice and contempt, cloaked in the pretense of religious or political conviction, are no different. They have nearly destroyed us in the past. They plague us still. They fuel the fanaticism of terror. They torment the lives of millions in fractured nations around the world. These obsessions cripple both those who are hated and, of course, those who hate, robbing both of what they might become.»
Author: Bill Clinton
(President)
| About:
Discrimination,
Prejudice
| Keywords:
cloaked, cripple, crippled, curse, divide, immigrant, immigrants, No Wave, obsessions, prejudices, pretence, targets, wave
«The god on the cross is a curse on life, a signpost to seek redemption from life; Dionysus cut to pieces is a promise of life: it will be eternally reborn and return again from destruction»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| About:
Life
| Keywords:
curse, cut to, destruction, Dionysus, eternally, pieces, reborn, redemption, signpost, signposts, The cross, The God
«The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.»
«The inspired Bible has been and is the greatest curse of Christendom, and will so remain as long as it is held to be inspired»
Author: Robert Green Ingersoll
(Orator, Statesman)
| Keywords:
as it is, Christendom, curse, held, inspired
«The common curse of mankind, -- folly and ignorance.»
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