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Letter "R" » rationed
«He had drawn many a thousand of these rations in prisons and camps, and though he'd never had an opportunity to weight them on scales, and although, being a man of timid nature, he knew no way of standing up for his rights, he, like every other prisoner, had discovered long ago that honest weight was never to be found in the bread-cutting. There was short weight in every ration. The only point was how short. So every day you took a look to soothe your soul - today, maybe, they haven't snitched any.»
«If we are to keep democracy, there must be a commandment: Thou shalt not ration justice»
«I began to ration my writing, for fear I would dream through life as my father had done. I was afraid I had inherited a poisoned gene from him, a vocation without a gift.»
«I don't like Communism because it hands out wealth through rationing books.»
«It is true that liberty is precious - so precious that it must be rationed»
«Jupiter, not wanting man's life to be wholly gloomy and grim, has bestowed far more passion than reason /you could reckon the ration as twenty-four to one. Moreover, he confined reason to a cramped corner of the head and left all the rest of the body to the passions.»
«If every man on Earth could take with him on death even a handful of mud from the Earth, there would have been nothing much left and mud would have been rationed at so many ounces per head!»
Author: Sri Sathya Sai Baba
(Spiritual leader)
| Keywords:
handful, mud, ounces, ration, rationed, rationing, rations
«We live under continual threat of two equally fearful, but seemingly opposed, destinies: unremitting banality and inconceivable terror. It is fantasy, served out in large rations by the popular arts, which allows most people to cope with these twin specters.»
Author: Susan Sontag
(Activist, Critic, Writer)
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banalities, banality, cope, fearful, ration, rationed, rationing, rations, specter, specters, The Popular, unremitting
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