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«I am not eccentric. It's just that I am more alive than most people. I am an unpopular electric eel set in a pond of goldfish.»
Author: Dame Edith Sitwell
(Biographer, Critic, Poet)
| Keywords:
eccentric, eccentrics, eel, Eels, electric, electric eel, goldfish, pond, ponds, set in, unpopular
«Any plan conceived in moderation must fail when the circumstances are set in extremes.»
«Indians today are governed by two different ideologies. Their political ideal set in the preamble of the Constitution affirms a life of liberty, equality and fraternity. Their social ideal embodied in their religion denies them.»
Author: B. R. Ambedkar
(Politician)
| Keywords:
affirms, denies, embodied, fraternities, fraternity, Ideologies, Indians, political ideology, political liberty, preamble, set in
«Like the noise of chariots on the tops of mountains shall they leap, like the noise of a flame of fire that devoureth the stubble, as a strong people set in battle array.»
«Asshur is there and all her company: his graves are about him: all of them slain, fallen by the sword: / Whose graves are set in the sides of the pit, and her company is round about her grave: all of them slain, fallen by the sword, which caused terror in the land of the living.»
«For this cause left I thee in Crete, that thou shouldest set in order the things that are wanting, and ordain elders in every city, as I had appointed thee: / If any be blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children not accused of riot or unruly.»
«I will plant in the wilderness the cedar, the shittah tree, and the myrtle, and the oil tree; I will set in the desert the fir tree, and the pine, and the box tree together: / That they may see, and know, and consider, and understand together, that the hand of the LORD hath done this, and the Holy One of Israel hath created it.»
«Learn to live in this world with self-respect. You should always cherish some ambition of doing something in this world. But remember that the age of selflessness has ended. A new epoch is set in. All things are now possible because of your being able to participate in the politics and legislature of your country.»
Author: B. R. Ambedkar
(Politician)
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ended, legislature, selflessness, set in, The Politics
«Newsmen believe that news is a tacitly acknowledged fourth branch of the federal system. This is why most news about government sounds as if it were federally mandated -- serious, bulky and blandly worthwhile, like a high-fiber diet set in type.»
Author: P. J. O'Rourke
(Humorist, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
acknowledged, blandly, branch, bulkier, bulky, diet, Federal, federally, fourth, mandate, mandated, mandates, newsman, newsmen, set in, tacitly, The Federal, worthwhile
«In the seventeenth century a dissociation of sensibility set in.»
Author: T.S. Eliot
(Critic, Editor, Playwright, Poet)
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dissociation, set in, seventeenth, seventeenth century
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