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«But in here in this graveyard that is still no man's land The countless white crosses in mute witness stand To man's blind indifference to his fellow man To a whole generation that was butchered and damned»
Author: Eric Bogle
| Keywords:
butchered, butchers, countless, crosses, damned, graveyard, graveyards, mute, muted, mutes, witness, witness stand
«Science and technology multiply around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the languages in which we speak and think. Either we use those languages, or we remain mute.»
Author: J. G. Ballard
(Novelist, Writer)
| Keywords:
dictate, increasing, languages, multiply, mute, muted, mutes
«I have three phobias which, could I mute them, would make my life as slick as a sonnet, but as dull as ditch water: I hate to go to bed, I hate to get up, and I hate to be alone.»
«Discipline must come through liberty. . . . We do not consider an individual disciplined only when he has been rendered as artificially silent as a mute and as immovable as a paralytic. He is an individual annihilated, not disciplined.»
Author: Maria Montessori
(Educator, Physician)
| About:
Discipline
| Keywords:
annihilate, annihilates, annihilating, artificially, come through, disciplined, immovable, individual liberty, mute, muted, mutes, paralytic, rendered
«Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay.»
«'Tis the little rift within the lute - That by and by will make the music mute, And, ever widening, slowly silence all»
«More safe I sing with mortal voice, unchanged / To hoarse or mute though fall'n on evil days, / On evil days though fall'n, and evil tongues; / In darkness, and with dangers compassed round, / And solitude.»
«My greatest weapon is mute prayer.»
«Law stands mute in the midst of arms.»
Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero
(Lawyer, Orator, Scholar, Statesman, Writer)
| About:
Law and lawyers
| Keywords:
mute
«The harp that once through Tara's halls / The soul of music shed, / Now hangs as mute as Tara's walls / As if that soul were fled.»
Author: Thomas More
(Chancellor, Humanist, Statesman)
| Keywords:
harp, music hall, mute, shed, Tara
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