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Letter "P" » provision
«Women and birds are able to see without turning their heads, and that is indeed a necessary provision for they are both surrounded by enemies»
Author: James Stephens
(Poet)
| About:
Animals,
Enemies,
Women
| Keywords:
birds, heads, provision, surrounded, turning
«The aim of education is to enable individuals to continue their education ... (and) the object and reward of learning is continued capacity for growth. Now this idea cannot be applied to all the members of a society except where intercourse of man with man is mutual, and except where there is adequate provision for the reconstruction of social habits and institutions by means of wide stimulation arising from equitably distributed interests. And this means a democratic society.»
Author: John Dewey
(Educator, Philosopher, Psychologist)
| Keywords:
adequate, applied, arising, continued, distributed, enable, equitably, intercourse, provision, reconstruction, social intercourse, stimulation
«Then Joseph commanded to fill their sacks with corn, and to restore every man's money into his sack, and to give them provision for the way: and thus did he unto them.»
«This our bread we took hot for our provision out of our houses on the day we came forth to go unto you; but now, behold, it is dry, and it is mouldy: / And these bottles of wine, which we filled, were new; and, behold, they be rent: and these our garments and our shoes are become old by reason of the very long journey.»
«O LORD God of Abraham, Isaac, and of Israel, our fathers, keep this for ever in the imagination of the thoughts of the heart of thy people, and prepare their heart unto thee: / And give unto Solomon my son a perfect heart, to keep thy commandments, thy testimonies, and thy statutes, and to do all these things, and to build the palace, for the which I have made provision.»
Author: Bible
| Keywords:
Abraham, Commandments, Isaac, My Son, palace, provision, Solomon, statutes, testimonies, The Palace
«Learning is an ornament in prosperity, a refuge in adversity, and a provision in old age.»
«LAP, n. One of the most important organs of the female system --an admirable provision of nature for the repose of infancy, but chiefly useful in rural festivities to support plates of cold chicken and heads of adult males. The male of our species has a rudimentary lap, imperfectly developed and in no way contributing to the animal's substantial welfare.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
admirable, adult male, chiefly, contributing, imperfectly, infancy, in no way, lap, organs, plates, provision, repose, rudimentary, rural, substantial, support system, The Animal
«No provision in our Constitution ought to be dearer to man than that which protects the rights of conscience against the enterprises of the civil authority.»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| Keywords:
Against the man, authority, civil, civil authority, civil right, conscience, constitution, constitutions, dearer, enterprises, ought, protects, provision, rights
«Provision for others is a fundamental responsibility of human life.»
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