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Letter "D" » dormant
«Without books, God is silent, justice dormant, natural science at a stand, philosophy lame, letters dumb, and all things involved in darkness»
Author: Bartholini
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Books
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dormant, in darkness, lame, natural philosophy, natural science
«The unique personality which is the real life in me, I can not gain unless I search for the real life, the spiritual quality, in others. I am myself spiritually dead unless I reach out to the fine quality dormant in others. For it is only with the god enthroned in the innermost shrine of the other, that the god hidden in me, will consent to appear.»
Author: Felix Adler
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Personality
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«Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant, they is a fuel in us which needs to be ignited with sparks.»
Author: Johann Gottfried Von Herder
(Critic, Philosopher, Poet, Theologian)
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dormant, fuel, fuel in, ignite, ignited, ignites, igniting, sparks
«When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all your thoughts break their bonds: Your mind transcends limitations, your consciousness expands in every direction, and you find yourself in a new, great, and wonderful world. Dormant forces, faculties and talents become alive, and your discover yourself to be a greater person by far than you ever dreamed yourself to be.»
Author: Patanjali
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«I had left home (like all Jewish girls) in order to eat pork and take birth control pills. When I first shared an intimate evening with my husband I was swept away by the passion (so dormant inside myself) of a long and tortured existence. The physical cravings I had tried so hard to deny finally and ultimately sated... but enough about the pork.»
Author: Roseanne
(Actress, Comedian)
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birth control, Birth control pills, cravings, dormant, eating away, eat away, intimate, Jewish, pills, pork, sate, sated, Sates, shared, sweep away, swept, Swept Away, The Passion
«There is in every true woman's heart, a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.»
«To me, film right now is dormant. It's a sleeping giant. It's the plaything of corporations. The people who determine what American film is today are no different from high rollers who go to Las Vegas. They just want to take all the money and put it on one big number and roll the dice on that number and if it craps out, next number. Next case.»
Author: William Friedkin
(Film Director, Producer, Writer)
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Corporations, craps, dice, dormant, giant, just in case, Las, Las Vegas, on that, plaything, playthings, put to sleep, rolled into one, rollers, Sleeping Giant
«Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant.»
«It's extraordinary how we go through life with eyes half shut, with dull ears, with dormant thoughts. Perhaps it's just as well; and it may be that it is this very dullness that makes life to the incalculable majority so supportable and so welcome.»
Author: Joseph Conrad
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dormant, dullness, extraordinary, incalculable, supportable, welcome
«I have often reflected upon the new vistas that reading opened to me. I knew right there in prison that reading had changed forever the course of my life. As I see it today, the ability to read awoke in me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive.»
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