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Letter "F" » fainting
«If men were equally at risk from this condition -- if they knew their bellies might swell as if they were suffering from end-stage cirrhosis, that they would have to go nearly a year without a stiff drink, a cigarette, or even an aspirin, that they would be subject to fainting spells and unable to fight their way onto commuter trains -- then I am sure that pregnancy would be classified as a sexually transmitted disease and abortions would be no more controversial than emergency appendectomies.»
Author: Barbara Ehrenreich
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«Every sincere break with Communism is a religious experience, though the Communists fail to identify its true nature, though he fail to go to the end of the experience. His break is the political expression of the perpetual need of the soul whose first faint stirring he has felt within him, years, months or days before he breaks. A Communist breaks because he must choose at last between irreconcilable opposites ? God or Man, Soul or Mind, Freedom or Communism.»
Author: Whittaker Chambers
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«..fiery yearnings their own phantom-futures make, and deem it present. So, after all these fearful, fainting trances, the verdict be, the golden haven was not gained - - yet, in bold quest thereof, better to sink in boundless deeps, than float on vulgar shoals; and give me, ye gods, an utter wreck, if wreck I do.»
«Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow.»
«If thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength is small»
«If I can stop one Heart from breaking I shall not live in vain If I can ease one life the Aching Or cool one Pain Or help one fainting Robin Unto his Nest again I shall not live in Vain»
«He taught us Drawling, Stretching and Fainting in Coils.»
Author: Lewis Carroll
(Logician, Mathematician, Novelist, Photographer)
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«Faint heart ne'er won fair lady»
«A man whose mind feels that it is captive would prefer to blind himself to the fact. But if he hates falsehood, he will not do so; and in that case he will have to suffer a lot. He will beat his head against the wall until he faints. He will come to again»
Author: Simone Weil
(Activist, Mystic, Philosopher)
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«Affection faints not like a pale-faced coward,But then woos best when most his choice is froward.»
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