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«The rest of the world is sweeping past us. The oil and gas of the Texas future is the well-educated mind. But we are still worried about whether Midland can beat Odessa at football.»
Author: Mark White
(Governor, Lawyer, Politician)
| Keywords:
gas, midland, Odessa, Rest of the world, sweeping, Texas, The WELL, well-educated, worried
«He found the egg-shaped perimeter of Nikita Khrushchev's head sweeping to a comic climax in the dark hole of his open mouth.»
Author: Richard Lacayo
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climax, comic, egg-shaped, Khrushchev, Nikita Khrushchev, perimeter, sweeping
«The present assault upon capital is but the beginning. It will be but a stepping-stone to others, larger and more sweeping, till our political contests will become a war of the poor against the rich.»
«Let us hope especially that the enthusiasm and exaggerations, which so easily seize men congregated in large groups - affecting human passions and leading the crowd against its own interest, sweeping up in their whirlwind the sage and philosopher as»
Author: Antoine Lavoisier
(Chemist)
| Keywords:
affecting, congregate, congregated, exaggerations, groups, sage, sweeping, The Crowd, whirlwinds
«A poor man that oppresseth the poor is like a sweeping rain which leaveth no food.»
«A dark horse, which had never been thought of . . . rushed past the grand stand to sweeping triumph.»
«Rest not. Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
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behind, conquer, dare, leave, leave behind, mighty, rest, sublime, sweeping, sweep over, sweep through, sweep up
«What, you want, do you, to come unawares, / Sweeping the church up for first morning-prayers, / And find a poor devil has ended his cares / At the foot of your rotten-runged rat-riddled stairs? / Do I carry the moon in my pocket?»
Author: Robert Browning
(Poet)
| Keywords:
ended, morning prayer, poor devil, rat, riddled, rotten, stairs, sweeping, unawares
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