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«Among the best traitors Ireland has ever had, Mother Church ranks at the very top, a massive obstacle in the path to equality and freedom. She has been a force for conservatism... to ward off threats to her own security and influence.»
Author: Bernadette Devlin
(Politician)
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«A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good conscience.»
Author: Sydney Smith
(Clergyman, Essayist, Wit)
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«A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms agains himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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Doubt
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«And all the doors and posts were square, with the windows: and light was against light in three ranks.»
«COMMONWEALTH, n. An administrative entity operated by an incalculable multitude of political parasites, logically active but fortuitously efficient.This commonwealth's capitol's corridors view, So thronged with a hungry and indolent crew Of clerks, pages, porters and all attaches Whom rascals appoint and the populace pays That a cat cannot slip through the thicket of shins Nor hear its own shriek for the noise of their chins. On clerks and on pages, and porters, and all, Misfortune attend and disaster befall! May life be to them a succession of hurts; May fleas by the bushel inhabit their shirts; May aches and diseases encamp in their bones, Their lungs full of tubercles, bladders of stones; May microbes, bacilli, their tissues infest, And tapeworms securely their bowels digest; May corn-cobs be snared without hope in their hair, And frequent impalement their pleasure impair. Disturbed be their dreams by the awful discourse Of audible sofas sepulchrally hoarse, By chairs acrobatic and wavering floors -- The mattress that kicks and the pillow that snores! Sons of cupidity, cradled in sin! Your criminal ranks may the death angel thin, Avenging the friend whom I couldn't work in. --K.Q.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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«And there were windows in three rows, and light was against light in three ranks.»
«All service ranks the same with God: With God, whose puppets, best and worst, Are we; there is no last nor first»
«And even the ranks of Tuscany / Could scarce forbear to cheer.»
«(Academics) commit their pupils to the theatre of the world, with just taste enough of learning to be alienated from industrial pursuits, and not enough to do service in the ranks of science»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
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Academics, alienate, industrial, Learning to, pursuits, ranks, theatre
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