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«The Revolution was effected before the War commenced. The Revolution was in the minds and hearts of the people; a change in their religious sentiments of their duties and obligations. This radical change in the principles, opinions, sentiments, and affections of the people, was the real American Revolution.»
Author: John Adams
(President)
| Keywords:
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«The missionary is no longer a man, a conscience. He is a corpse, in the hands of a confraternity, without family, without love, without any of the sentiments that are dear to us. Emasculated, in a sense, by his vow of chastity, he offers us the distressing spectacle of a man deformed and impotent or engaged in a stupid and useless struggle with the sacred needs of the flesh, a struggle which, seven times out of ten, leads him to sodomy, the gallows, or prison.»
Author: Paul Gauguin
| Keywords:
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«Receive every day as a resurrection from death, as a new enjoyment of life; meet every rising sun with such sentiments of God's goodness, as if you had seen it, and all things, new - created upon your account: and under the sense of so great a blessi»
Author: William Law
| Keywords:
enjoyment, Great A, His Resurrection, New Gods, resurrection, resurrections, rising, Rising Sun, sentiments, The sense
«The most important of all revolutions, a revolution in sentiments, manners and moral opinions.»
Author: Edmund Burke
(Philosopher, Statesman)
| Keywords:
manners, revolution, revolutions, sentiments
«The diplomacy of the present administration has sought to respond to modern ideas of commercial intercourse. This policy has been characterized as substituting dollars for bullets. It is one that appeals alike to idealistic humanitarian sentiments, to the dictates of sound policy and strategy, and to legitimate commercial aims.»
Author: William Howard Taft
(President)
| Keywords:
administration, aims, appeals, bullets, characterized, commercial, dictates, diplomacy, humanitarian, idealistic, intercourse, legitimate, respond, sentiments, strategy, substituting, this policy
«The majority of the senior class of Vassar does not desire my company and I must confess, having read specimens of their thought and sentiments, that I do not desire the company of the majority of the senior class of Vassar.»
Author: William F. Buckley, Jr.
(Writer)
| Keywords:
Company of, senior, seniors, senior class, sentiments, specimen, specimens
«The high sentiments always win in the end, the leaders who offer blood, toil, tears, and sweat always get more out of their followers than those who offer safety and a good time. When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.»
Author: George Orwell
(Essayist, Novelist)
| Keywords:
followers, Good Time, heroic, human blood, pinch, pinched, pinches, pinching, safety, sentiments, sweat, toil
«The human soul is hospitable, and will entertain conflicting sentiments and contradictory opinions with much impartiality»
Author: George Eliot
(Novelist)
| About:
Soul
| Keywords:
conflicting opinions, contradictory, hospitable, impartiality, sentiments
«The purpose of foreign policy is not to provide an outlet for our own sentiments of hope or indignation; it is to shape real events in a real world.»
Author: John Fitzgerald Kennedy
(President)
| Keywords:
foreign, foreign policy, indignation, outlet, outlets, policy, provide, sentiments
«Them's my sentiments»
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