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«When in 1966 Charles de Gaulle ordered France out of NATO and American troops off French soil, Secretary of State Dean Rusk asked him if that included the American soldiers lying dead in the cemeteries at Normandy and throughout France»
Author: Charles Krauthammer
| Keywords:
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«Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of; they just turn up some of the ill weeds on to the surface.»
«We have archeology on television, and I quite like it; it?s a sort of detective thing, but it?s really true, you know it?s there? But it?s kind of slow on telly, it has this problem of, ?We?ve been here three weeks on live television, and we?ve taken off about a millimeter of top soil so far?? There?s men with brushes and beards? maybe they?ve just got beards, I?m not sure? ?We found this and carbon-dated it to last Tuesday, so we?re very excited??»
Author: Eddie Izzard
(Actor, Comedian)
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archeology, beards, brushes, carbon, carbons, dated, detective, excited, millimeter, Not sure, soil, telly, Three Weeks, Tuesday, Tuesdays, weeks
«What we plant in the soil of contemplation, we shall reap in the harvest of action»
Author: Meister Eckhart
(Theologian, Writer)
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Action,
Vision
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contemplation, harvest, harvested, harvesting, harvests, plant, reap, reaps, soil, soiled, soiling, soils, The Harvest
«You become smaller and smaller, you small people! You are fading away, you lovers of the easy life! You are being destroyed . . . your soil is too protective, too yielding.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| Keywords:
fading, fading away, protective, smaller, soil, yielding
«To call war the soil of courage and virtue is like calling debauchery the soil of love.»
«Yet some can be patriotic who have no self-respect, and sacrifice the greater to the less. They love the soil which makes their graves, but have no sympathy with the spirit which may still animate their clay. Patriotism is a maggot in their heads.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
animate, animates, clay, Graves, No self, patriotic, patriotism, self respect, soil, sympathy
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