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Letter "F" » folk
«Do you know what a soldier is, young man? He's the chap who makes it possible for civilized folk to despise war.»
Author: Allan Massie
| Keywords:
as soldiers, chap, chaps, civilize, civilized, civilizes, civilizing, despise, despising, folk, On War, possible, soldier, soldiered, soldiering, Soldiers of the, The War of the, war, warring, young, young man
«Civilization is a conspiracy. Modern life is the silent compact of comfortable folk to keep up pretences.»
«All music is folk music, I ain't never heard no horse sing a song»
«Cats are mysterious kind of folk - there is more passing in their minds than we are aware of.»
Author: Sir Walter Scott
(Biographer, Historian, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Animals,
Cats
| Keywords:
folk, mysterious, passing
«It is fatally easy for Western folk, who have discarded chastity as a value for themselves, to suppose that it can have no value for anyone else. At the same time as Californians try to re-invent ''celibacy,'' by which they seem to mean perverse restraint, the rest of us call societies which place a high value on chastity ''backward.''»
Author: Germaine Greer
| Keywords:
backward, Californian, Californians, celibacy, chastity, discarded, fatally, folk, no value, perverse, restraint, societies, Western
«?But that?s not the way of it with the tales that really mattered, or the ones that stay in the mind. Folk seem to have just landed in them, usually - their paths were laid that way, as you put it. But I expect they had lots of chances, like us, of turning back, only they didn?t. And if they had, we shouldn?t know, because they?d have been forgotten. We hear about those as just went on - and not all to a good end, mind you; at least not to what folk inside a story and not outside it call a good end?»
Author: J.R.R. Tolkien
(Author, Writer)
| Keywords:
back end, call back, chances, folk, good story, in the mind, laid, Laid Back, landed, lots, mattered, mind over matter, paths, path of least, put back, stay put, tales, turning
«Christ of his gentleness, / Thirsting and hungering / Walked in the wilderness; / Soft words of grace he spoke / Unto lost desert-folk / That listened wondering.»
Author: Robert Graves
| Keywords:
desert, folk, gentleness, hungering, listened, spoke, the Wilderness, thirsting, walked, wilderness, wondering
«For the folk-community does not exist on the fictitious value of money but on the results of productive labor, which is what gives money its value»
Author: Adolf Hitler
(Chancellor)
| About:
Money,
Value
| Keywords:
does not exist, fictitious, folk, productive
«Come, Caesar, even by night - let stars delay; If thou but come, thy folk will find it day»
«I think that Richard Nixon will go down in history as a true folk hero, who struck a vital blow to the whole diseased concept of the revered image and gave the American virtue of irreverence and skepticism back to the people.»
Author: William S. Burroughs
| Keywords:
American history, diseased, folk, folk hero, go down, irreverence, Nixon, revered, revering, Richard, Richard Nixon, skepticism, strike back
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