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Letter "T" » talk of
«We talk of our mastery of nature, which sounds very grand; but the fact is we respectfully adapt ourselves, first, to her ways»
Author: Clarence Day
(Biographer, Essayist, Humorist, Writer)
| Keywords:
mastery, respectfully, talk of
«Whenever there has been talk of exterminating rats, others, who were not rats, have been exterminated.»
Author: Gunter Grass
| Keywords:
exterminate, exterminated, exterminates, exterminating, rats, talk of
«The common talk of the struggle for survival has obscured the plain fact that man rose in the world primarily by cooperating, not struggling with his fellows»
Author: Hermann Muller
| About:
Struggle
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cooperate, cooperated, cooperating, fellows, obscured, primarily, struggling, talk of
«To pretend to describe the excellence, the greatness or duration of the happiness of heaven by the most artful composition of words would be but to darken and cloud it; to talk of raptures and ecstasies, joy and singing, is but to set forth very low»
«The talk of winning our share is not the easy one of disengagement and flight, but the hard one of work, of short as well as long jumps, of disappointments, and of sweet success.»
Author: Roy Wilkins
(Statesman)
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disappointments, disengagement, long jump, sweet talk, talk of, The Hard
«They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.»
Author: Herman Melville
(Novelist, Poet, Writer)
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at leisure, dignities, dignity, leisure, talk of
«When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting»
«When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.»
«We talk of choosing our friends, but friends are self-elected»
«Those who talk of the Bible as a 'monument of English prose' are merely admiring it as a monument over the grave of Christianity.»
Author: T.S. Eliot
(Critic, Editor, Playwright, Poet)
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admiring, monument, prose, talk of, The Grave
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