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Letter "O" » obedient
«Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
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disobedience, foundation, liberty, obedient, On Liberty, slaves, slaving, the true
«A tranquil city of good laws, fine architecture, and clean streets is like a classroom of obedient dullards, or a field of gelded bulls - whereas a city of anarchy is a city of promise»
Author: Mark Helprin
(Novelist)
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Cities
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anarchy, architecture, bulls, classroom, classrooms, dullard, dullards, geld, gelded, obedient, tranquil
«Everything vanishes around me, and works are born as if out of the void. Ripe, graphic fruits fall off. My hand has become the obedient instrument of a remote will.»
«Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile»
«And the word of God increased; and the number of the disciples multiplied in Jerusalem greatly; and a great company of the priests were obedient to the faith.»
«An obedient wife commands her husband»
Author: Benjamin Disraeli
(Novelist, Prime Minister)
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Wives
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commands, Her husband, obedient
«A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy.»
Author: Aldous Huxley
(Critic, Novelist)
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«And thou shalt put some of thine honour upon him, that all the congregation of the children of Israel may be obedient.»
«And he took the book of the covenant, and read in the audience of the people: and they said, All that the LORD hath said will we do, and be obedient.»
«Attend constantly to prayers and to the middle prayer and stand up truly obedient to Allah. (The Cow 2.238)»
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