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«The moon is nothing But a circumambulating aphrodisiac Divinely subsidized to provoke the world Into a rising birth-rate»
Author: Christopher Fry
(Writer)
| Keywords:
aphrodisiac, aphrodisiacs, birth, birth rate, divinely, provoke, provokes, rate, rising, subsidize, subsidized, subsidizes, The Moon
«We have this day restored the Sovereign to Whom all men ought to be obedient. He reigns in heaven and from the rising to the setting of the sun, let His kingdom come.»
Author: Samuel Adams
(Politician)
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be restored, Days of Heaven, kingdom, obedient, reigning, reigns, restored, restores, restoring, rising, Rising Sun, setting, sovereign, sovereigns, The Rising
«To be angry about trifles is mean and childish; to rage and be furious is brutish; and to maintain perpetual wrath is akin to the practice and temper of devils; but to prevent and suppress rising resentment is wise and glorious, is manly and divine.»
«What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation?»
Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero
(Lawyer, Orator, Scholar, Statesman, Writer)
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Education,
Teachers and teaching
| Keywords:
employment, generation, instructing, instructs, nobler, rising, The Rising, The State, valuable
«The most insignificant people are the most apt to sneer at others. They are safe from reprisals. And have no hope of rising in their own self esteem but by lowering their neighbors.»
Author: William Hazlitt
(Writer)
| Keywords:
apt, insignificant, lowering, neighbors, rising, self esteem, sneer, sneered, sneering, sneers
«We should develop anti-satellite weapons because we could not have prevailed without them in `Red Storm Rising'.»
«The great danger of conversion in all ages has been that when the religion of the high mind is offered to the lower mind, the lower mind, feeling its fascination without understanding it, and being incapable of rising to it, drags it down to its level by degrading it.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
ages, all ages, conversion, conversions, Conversion of, danger, degrading, drags, fascination, fascinations, high-minded, high and low, high level, incapable, level, lower, lowering, lowers, offered, rising
«When I, sitting, heard the astronomer, where he lectured with such applause in the lecture room, how soon, unaccountable, I became tired and sick; Till rising and gliding out, I wandered off by myself, in the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time, looked up in perfect silence at the stars.»
Author: Walt Whitman
(Poet)
| Keywords:
applause, astronomer, astronomers, became, from time to time, glide, glided, glides, glide by, gliding, lecture, lectured, lecture room, lecturing, moist, mystical, rising, unaccountable, wandered
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