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«I wouldn't attach too much importance to these student riots. I remember when I was a student at the Sorbonne in Paris, I used to go out and riot occasionally.»
«Music and dancing (the more the pity) have become so closely associated with ideas of riot and debauchery among the less cultivated classes, that a taste for them, for their own sakes, can hardly be said to exist, and before they can be recommended a»
Author: John Herschel
| About:
Dancing
| Keywords:
associated, closely, cultivated, debaucheries, debauchery, recommended, riot, sakes
«My soul is dark with stormy riot: Directly traced over to diet»
«If our colleges and universities do not breed men who riot, who rebel, who attack life with all the youthful vim and vigor, then there is something wrong with our colleges. The more riots that come on college campuses, the better world for tomorrow.»
Author: William Allen White
(Journalist)
| Keywords:
attack, breed, campus, campuses, college, colleges, Colleges and universities, come on, rebel, riot, rioting, riots, universities, vigor, vim, youthful
«A riot is the language of the unheard.»
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Baptist Minister, Civil-Rights Leader)
| Keywords:
language, riot, rioting, riots, unheard
«A riot is a spontaneous outburst. A war is subject to advance planning.»
Author: Richard M. Nixon
(President)
| Keywords:
advance, outburst, outbursts, planning, riot, rioting, riots, spontaneous, subject to
«Passion is the mob of the man, that commits a riot upon his reason»
«For the time past of our life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries: / Wherein they think it strange that ye run not with them to the same excess of riot, speaking evil of you: / Who shall give account to him that is ready to judge the quick and the dead.»
«But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own corruption; / And shall receive the reward of unrighteousness, as they that count it pleasure to riot in the day time. Spots they are and blemishes, sporting themselves with their own deceivings while they feast with you; / Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls: an heart they have exercised with covetous practices; cursed children: / Which have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness; / But was rebuked for his iniquity: the dumb ass speaking with man's voice forbad the madness of the prophet.»
Author: Bible
| Keywords:
astray, Balaam, beguile, beguiled, beguiling, blemishes, covetous, rebuked, riot, spots, The Madness, the right way, The Wages of, unrighteousness
«A continual feast of commendation is only to be obtained by merit or by wealth: many are therefore obliged to content themselves with single morsels, and recompense the infrequency of their enjoyment by excess and riot, whenever fortune sets the banquet before them.»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
banquet, commendation, infrequency, morsels, recompense, riot
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