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«Since the general civilization of mankind, I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpation»
Author: James Madison
(President)
| About:
Civilization,
Freedom,
Mankind
| Keywords:
abridgment, abridgments, encroachment, encroachments, gradual, instances, sudden, The General, usurpation, violent
«It is clear that all verbal structures with meaning are verbal imitations of that elusive psychological and physiological process known as thought, a process stumbling through emotional entanglements, sudden irrational convictions, involuntary gleams of insight, rationalized prejudices, and blocks of panic and inertia, finally to reach a completely incommunicable intuition.»
Author: Northrop Frye
| Keywords:
blocks, convictions, elusive, gleaming, gleams, imitations, inertia, insight, intuition, involuntary, irrational, known as, panic, physiological, prejudices, psychological, rationalize, rationalized, structures, stumbling, sudden, thought process, verbal
«Once you accept your own death, all of a sudden you're free to live. You no longer care about your reputation. You no longer care except so far as your life can be used tactically to promote a cause you believe in.»
Author: Saul Alinsky
| About:
Death and dying,
Life
| Keywords:
all of a sudden, cause of death, of a sudden, promote, promotes, so far, sudden, sudden death, tactically
«Laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly.»
Author: Thomas Hobbes
(Philosopher)
| About:
Laughter
| Keywords:
arising, comparison, conception, formerly, infirmity, sudden
«[I]f we and our posterity reject religious instruction and authority, violate the rules of eternal justice, trifle with the injunctions of morality, and recklessly destroy the political constitution which holds us together, no man can tell how sudden a catastrophe may overwhelm us, that shall bury all our glory in profound obscurity.»
Author: Daniel Webster
(Orator, Senator, Statesman)
| About:
Authority,
Constitution,
Justice,
Politics,
Religion
| Keywords:
injunction, injunctions, instruction, posterity, recklessly, reject, religious instruction, Rules of, sudden, The Rules, trifle, violate
«New York now leads the world's great cities in the number of people around whom you shouldn't make a sudden move.»
Author: David Letterman
(Comedian, Host)
| About:
America and Americans,
Cities,
New York
| Keywords:
City of New York, move around, moving around, sudden
«I can't describe to you how surprised I was to find out I loved her, old sport. I even hoped for a while that she'd throw me over, but she didn't, because she was in love with me too. She thought I knew a lot beacause I knew different things from her....Well, there I was, way off my ambitions, getting deeper in love every minute, and all of a sudden I didn't care. What was the use of doing great things if I could have a better time telling her what I was going to do? Gatsby»
Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
(Writer)
| Keywords:
all of a sudden, ambitions, describe, for a while, hoped-for, hoped, of a sudden, sport, sudden, throw off
«It gives one a sudden start in going down a barren, stony street, to see upon a narrow strip of grass, just within the iron fence, the radiant dandelion, shining in the grass, like a spark dropped from the sun»
«I think a good product would be Baby Duck Hat. It's a fake baby duck, which you strap on top of your head. Then you go swimming underwater until you find a mommy duck and her babies, and you join them. Then all of the sudden, you stand up out of the water and roar like Godzilla. Man those ducks really take off! Also Baby Duck Hat is good for parties. - Deep Thoughts (Saturday Night Live)»
«It is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden.»
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