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«We, the generation that faces the next century, can add the solemn injunction ''If we don't do the impossible, we shall be faced with the unthinkable.''»
Author: Petra Kelly
(Founder)
| Keywords:
century, faced, faces, injunction, injunctions, solemn, unthinkable
«To our real, naked selves there is not a thing on earth or in heaven worth dying for. It is only when we see ourselves as actors in a staged (and therefore unreal) performance that death loses its frightfulness and finality and becomes an act of make-believe and a theatrical gesture. It is one of the main tasks of a real leader to mask the grim reality of dying and killing by evoking in his followers the illusion that they are participating in a grandiose spectacle, a solemn or lighthearted dramatic performance.»
Author: Eric Hoffer
(Writer)
| Keywords:
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«There was three Kings into the east, / Three kings both great and high, / And they hae sworn a solemn oath / John Barleycorn should die.»
Author: Robert Burns
(Poet)
| Keywords:
barleycorn, John Barleycorn, oath, solemn, sworn, The East, Three Kings
«Students today are a pretty solemn lot. One of the really notable achievements of the twentieth century has been to make the young old before their time.»
Author: Robertson Davies
(Author, Journalist)
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Achievement,
Students
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achievements, notable, notables, solemn, twentieth, twentieth century
«The hills,Rock-ribbed, and ancient as the sun, -- the valesStretching in pensive quietness between;The venerable woods -- rivers that moveIn majesty, and the complaining brooksThat make the meadows green; and, poured round all,Old Ocean's gray and melancholy waste, --Are but the solemn decorations allOf the great tomb of man.»
Author: William Cullen Bryant
(Writer)
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Brooks, complaining, decoration, decorations, Great River, majesty, meadows, move in, pensive, poured, quietness, rib, ribbed, rock-ribbed, solemn, tomb, vales, venerable
«We scientists, whose tragic destiny it has been to make the methods of annihilation ever more gruesome and more effective, must consider it our solemn and transcendent duty to do all in our power in preventing these weapons from being used for the br»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| Keywords:
all in, annihilation, effective, effective power, gruesome, methods, preventing, scientists, solemn, tragic, transcendent, weapons
«The man consummating his life dies his death triumphantly, surrounded by men filled with hope and making solemn vows.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| Keywords:
consummate, consummated, consummating, filled, solemn, surrounded, triumphantly, Vows
«Sweet the coming on / Of grateful evening mild; then silent night / With this her solemn bird and this fair moon, / And these the gems of heaven, her starry train.»
«The pipe, with solemn interposing puff,Makes half a sentence at a time enough;The dozing sages drop the drowsy strain,Then pause, and puff -- and speak, and pause again.»
«The solemn fop; significant and budge; A fool with judges, amongst fools a judge»
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