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Letter "J" » jungle
«Sure, the lion is king of the junglebut airdrop him into Antarctica,& he's just a penguin's bitch»
Author: Dennis Miller
(Actor, Comedian)
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air-drop, airdrop, Antarctica, bitch, bitched, bitching, jungle, jungles, king, lion, The Jungle
«The diplomatic name for the law of the jungle.»
«Now my friends, I am opposed to the system of society in which we live today, not because I lack the natural equipment to do for myself but because I am not satisfied to make myself comfortable knowing that there are thousands of my fellow men who suffer for the barest necessities of life. We were taught under the old ethic that man's business on this earth was to look out for himself. That was the ethic of the jungle; the ethic of the wild beast. Take care of yourself, no matter what may become of your fellow man. Thousands»
«Man must get his thoughts, words and actions out of this vast moral jungle. We are not predators. We are, hopefully, more than instinctive killers and selfish brutes. Why take such a dim view of our potentialities and capabilities?»
«Man is head, chest and stomach. Each of these animals operates, more often than not, individually. I eat, I feel, I even, although rarely, think. This jungle crawls and teems, is hungry, roars, gets angry, devours itself, and its cacophonic concert does not even stop when you are asleep.»
Author: Rene Daumal
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cacophonic, concert, crawls, individually, jungle, more often than not, operates, roars, teeming with, teems
«Never fight fair with a stranger, boy. You'll never get out of the jungle that way.»
«Of all the peoples whom I have studied, from city dwellers to cliff dwellers, I always find that at least 50 percent would prefer to have at least one jungle between themselves and their mothers-in-law.»
«The power of a text is different when it is read from when it is copied out. Only the copied text thus commands the soul of him who is occupied with it, whereas the mere reader never discovers the new aspects of his inner self that are opened by the text, that road cut through the interior jungle forever closing behind it: because the reader follows the movement of his mind in the free flight of day-dreaming, whereas the copier submits it to command.»
Author: Walter Benjamin
(Essayist, Theologian, Writer)
| Keywords:
aspects, closing, commands, copied, copier, cut through, Forever Free, Interior, jungle, occupied, submits, text
«This is the mysterious world which is available to you if you can pass the jungle of questions and doubts and reach into the clear, where there are no questions and doubts, and no answers either. Just you are in utter silence, with immense clarity, with tremendous sharpness.»
Author: Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
(Spiritual leader)
| Keywords:
clarity, jungle, reach into, sharpness
«The ability to manage well doesn't make much difference if you're not even in the right jungle.»
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