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Letter "P" » perpetuating
«This is a formidable enemy. To dismiss it as a bunch of 'cowards' perpetuating 'senseless acts of violence' is complacent nonsense. People willing to kill thousands of innocents while they kill themselves are not cowards. They are deadly vicious warriors and need to be treated as such.»
Author: Charles Krauthammer
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«Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying»
Author: Simone de Beauvoir
(Writer)
| About:
Life
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«There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice.»
Author: Charles de Montesquieu
(Philosopher, Politician)
| About:
Tyranny
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«Fear can supplant our real problems only to the extent - unwilling either to assimilate or to exhaust it - we perpetuate it within ourselves like a temptation and enthrone it at the very heart of our solitude.»
Author: Emile M. Cioran
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«Upon books the collective education of the race depends; they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought.»
Author: Harry S Truman
(President)
| About:
Books,
Education
| Keywords:
collective, instruments, perpetuated, perpetuating, registered, registering, registers, sole, The Collective, The Register, transmits, transmitting
«My opposition [To Interviews] lies in the fact that offhand answers have little value or grace of expression, and that such oral give and take helps to perpetuate the decline of the English language.»
Author: James Thurber
(Writer)
| Keywords:
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«The pursuit of happiness, which American citizens are obliged to undertake, tends to involve them in trying to perpetuate the moods, tastes and aptitudes of youth.»
Author: Malcolm Muggeridge
| Keywords:
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«PREHISTORIC, adj. Belonging to an early period and a museum. Antedating the art and practice of perpetuating falsehood.He lived in a period prehistoric, When all was absurd and phantasmagoric. Born later, when Clio, celestial recorded, Set down great events in succession and order, He surely had seen nothing droll or fortuitous In anything here but the lies that she threw at us. --Orpheus Bowen»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
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«Not only do I pray for it, on the score of human dignity, but I can clearly foresee that nothing but the rooting out of slavery can perpetuate the existence of our union, by consolidating it in a common bond of principle»
Author: George Washington
(President)
| Keywords:
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«Human intelligence discovered a way of perpetuating itself, one not only more durable and more resistant than architecture, but also simpler and easier.»
Author: Victor Hugo
(Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
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