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«Whenever death may surprise us, let it be welcome if our battle cry has reached even one receptive ear and another hand reaches out to take up our arms.»
Author: Ernesto 'Che' Guevara
| About:
Death and dying
| Keywords:
battle cry, Let It Be, reaches, receptive, take up
«Women should try to increase their size rather than decrease it, because I believe the bigger we are, the more space we'll take up, and the more we'll have to be reckoned with.»
Author: Roseanne Barr
(Host)
| About:
Appearance,
Women
| Keywords:
bigger, decrease, decreased, decreases, decreasing, increase, reckoned, reckons, size, take up
«War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun»
«Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Consider ye, and call for the mourning women, that they may come; and send for cunning women, that they may come: / And let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears, and our eyelids gush out with waters.»
«The so-called Pythagoreans, who were the first to take up mathematics, not only advanced this subject, but saturated with it, they fancied that the principles of mathematics were the principles of all things.»
Author: Aristotle
(Philosopher, Physician, Scientist)
| About:
Mathematics,
Principles
| Keywords:
advanced, fancied, First to, Pythagoreans, saturate, saturated, so-called, take up, The So
«When your companions get drunk and fight, take up your hat and wish them good night»
«To be or not to be that is the question. Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or take arms against a sea of troubles, and by opposing, end them.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Literary
| Keywords:
Against A, arrows, nobler, opposing, outrageous, take up, take up arms
«When I take up a work that I have read before (the oftener the better) I know what I have to expect. The satisfaction is not lessened by being anticipated.»
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