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Letter "O" » obedience
«Women are told from their infancy, and taught by the example of their mothers, that a little knowledge of human weakness, justly termed cunning, softness of temper, outward obedience and a scrupulous attention to a puerile kind of propriety, will obtain for them the protection of man.»
Author: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
(Novelist)
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cunning, cunning man, infancy, justly, mothers, obedience, obtain, propriety, protection, puerile, scrupulous, softness, termed
«We have come out of the time when obedience, the acceptance of discipline, intelligent courage and resolution were most important, into that more difficult time when it is a person's duty to understand the world rather than simply fight for it»
Author: Ernest Hemingway
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Time
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acceptance, come out, discipline, important person, intelligent, obedience, resolution
«What is peculiar in the life of a man consists not in his obedience, but his opposition, to his instincts. In one direction or another he strives to live a supernatural life.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
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Life
| Keywords:
instincts, obedience, opposition, oppositions, peculiar, strives, supernatural, supernatural being
«When any one State in the American Union refuses obedience to the Confederation by which they have bound themselves, the rest have a natural right to compel them to obedience»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
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America and Americans,
Obedience
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American union, compel, confederation, Natural right, natural state, obedience, refuses
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