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«A ''just war'' is hospitable to every self-deception on the part of those waging it, none more than the certainty of virtue, under whose shelter every abomination can be committed with a clear conscience.»
Author: Alexander Cockburn
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abomination, certainty, deception, hospitable, Just War, self-deception, shelter, waging
«In political activity men sail a boundless and bottomless sea; there is neither harbor for shelter nor floor for anchorage, neither starting point nor appointed destination.»
Author: Michael Oakeshott
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Politics
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activity, anchorage, bottomless, boundless, destination, floor, harbor, harbored, harbors, sail, shelter, starting
«All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates the persons in that space.»
Author: Philip Johnson
| About:
Architecture
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architecture, contains, cuddle, cuddles, cuddling, design, exalts, shelter, stimulates
«If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men.»
Author: St. Francis of Assisi
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compassion, creatures, exclude, excludes, excluding, fellow, Fellow Creature, likewise, pity, shelter
«If one's life is simple, contentment has to come. Simplicity is extremely important for happiness. Having few desires, feeling satisfied with what you have, is very vital: satisfaction with just enough food, clothing, and shelter to protect yourself from the elements. And finally, there is an intense delight in abandoning faulty states of mind and in cultivating helpful ones in meditation.»
Author: Dalai Lama
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abandoning, clothing, contentment, cultivating, delight, desires, elements, extremely, faulty, finally, food, helpful, intense, meditation, meditations, protect, satisfaction, satisfied, shelter, simplicity, States, The Elements, vital
«A home is not a mere transient shelter: its essence lies in the personalities of the people who live in it»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
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essence, mere, personalities, shelter, transient
«It is in the shelter of each other that the people live.»
«HARBOR, n. A place where ships taking shelter from stores are exposed to the fury of the customs.»
«Do not ask the name of the person who seeks a bed for the night. He who is reluctant to give his name is the one who most needs shelter.»
«If from the top of a long cold barren hill I hear the distant whistle of a thrush which seems to come up from some warm woody shelter beyond the edge of the hill, this sound coming faint over the rocks with a mingled feeling of strangeness and joy, the idea of the place about me, and the imaginary one beyond will all be combined together in such a manner in my mind as to become inseparable.»
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