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Letter "S" » shielding
«Big egos are big shields for lots of empty space.»
«Pray often; for prayer is a shield to the soul, a sacrifice to God, and a scourge for Satan»
«If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.»
Author: Joseph Goebbels
| About:
Politics,
Propaganda,
Psychology
| Keywords:
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«There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of law and in the name of justice.»
Author: Charles de Montesquieu
(Philosopher, Politician)
| Keywords:
crueler, Law and Justice, perpetrate, perpetrated, perpetrates, shield, shielding, The name, The Shield, tyranny
«The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.»
Author: Herbert Spencer
(Philosopher)
| Keywords:
effects, fill, folly, fools, shielded, shielding, The Ultimate, ultimate
«Search for the seed of good in every adversity. Master that principle and you will own a precious shield that will guard you well through all the darkest valleys you must traverse. Stars may be seen from the bottom of a deep well, when they cannot be discerned from the mountaintop. So will you learn things in adversity that you would never have discovered without trouble. There is always a seed of good. Find it and prosper.»
Author: Og Mandino
(Essayist, Psychologist)
| Keywords:
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«For an impenetrable shield, stand inside yourself»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Strength
| Keywords:
impenetrable, inside, shield, shielded, shielding
«It is through Art and through Art only that we can realize our perfection; through Art and Art only that we can shield ourselves from the sordid perils of actual existence»
«The only guide to man is his conscience; the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerity of his actions. It is very imprudent to walk through life without this shield, because we are so often mocked by the failure of our hopes and the upsetting of our calculations; but with this shield, however the fates may play, we march always in the ranks of honor.»
Author: Winston Churchill
(Author, Orator, Prime Minister)
| About:
Conscience
| Keywords:
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