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Letter "I" » impotence
«We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence»
Author: Joseph Roux
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Father, His father, holds, immense, impotence, losing, orphan, orphaned, unhappiness, widower, widowers
«Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand»
«What a person wills and not what they know determines their worth or unworth, power or impotence, happiness or unhappiness.»
Author: Robert Lindner
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impotence
«The impotence of God is infinite»
«Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many. The resentment of the weak does not spring from any injustice done to them but from the sense of their inadequacy and impotence. They hate not wickedness but weakness. When it is in their power to do so, the weak destroy weakness wherever they see it.»
Author: Eric Hoffer
(Writer)
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corrupts, impotence, inadequacies, inadequacy, resentment, wickedness
«Reckoned physiologically, everything ugly weakens and afflicts man. It recalls decay, danger, impotence; he actually suffers a loss of energy in its presence. The effect of the ugly can be measured with a dynamometer. Whenever man feels in any way depressed, he senses the proximity of something ''ugly.'' His feeling of power, his will to power, his courage, his pride -- they decline with the ugly, they increase with the beautiful.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
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afflicts, decline, depressed, dynamometer, impotence, physiologically, proximity, recalls, reckoned, weakens
«The afflicted are not listened to. They are like someone whose tongue has been cut out and who occasionally forgets the fact. When they move their lips no ear perceives any sound. And they themselves soon sink into impotence in the use of language, because of the certainty of not being heard.»
Author: Simone Weil
(Activist, Mystic, Philosopher)
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afflicted, certainty, cut out, forgets, impotence, listened, occasionally, perceives, sink
«Their insatiable lust for power is only equaled by their incurable impotence in exercising it.»
Author: Winston Churchill
(Author, Orator, Prime Minister)
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Power
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equaled, exercising, impotence, incurable, incurables, insatiable, lust
«So they [the Government] go on in strange paradox, decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful for impotence.»
Author: Winston Churchill
(Author, Orator, Prime Minister)
| Keywords:
adamant, decided, drift, fluidity, impotence, irresolute, paradox, resolved, solid, undecided
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