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Letter "E" » earthquakes
«It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.»
Author: Frederick Douglass
(Abolitionist, Author, Lecturer, Slave)
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earthquake, earthquakes, like thunder, shower, storm, The Whirlwind, thunder, thundered, thundering, whirlwind, whirlwinds
«An earthquake achieves what the law promises but does not in practice maintain - the equality of all men»
Author: Ignazio Silon
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achieves, earthquake, earthquakes, equality, equality before the law, in practice, maintain, practice of law, promises
«Nature chose for a tool, not the earthquake or lightning to rend and split asunder, not the stormy torrent or eroding rain, but the tender snow-flowers noiselessly falling through unnumbered centuries.»
Author: John Muir
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asunder, centuries, chose, earthquake, earthquakes, erode, eroded, erodes, eroding, lightning, noiselessly, rend, snow, split, stormy, tender, tool, torrent, unnumbered
«For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows.»
«For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.»
«I couldn't help but be impressed by the magnitude of the earthquake.»
«If they'd lower the taxes and get rid of the smog and clean up the traffic mess, I really believe I'd settle here until the next earthquake»
«I by no means rank poetry high in the scale of intelligence -this may look like affectation but it is my real opinion. It is the lava of the imagination whose eruption prevents an earthquake.»
Author: Lord Byron
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affectation, affectations, by no means, earthquake, earthquakes, eruption, lava, prevents, rank, scale
«I was married once -- in San Francisco. I haven't seen her for many years. The great earthquake and fire in 1906 destroyed the marriage certificate. There's no legal proof. Which proves that earthquakes aren't all bad.»
Author: W. C. Fields
(Actor, Comic)
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certificate, certificates, destroyed, earthquake, earthquakes, Francisco, great year, legal, proves, San, San Francisco, The San
«All things have second birth;The earthquake is not satisfied at once.»
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