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Letter "T" » tribe
«The Senate is the last primitive society in the world. We still worship the elders of the tribe and honor the territorial imperative.»
Author: Eugene J. McCarthy
(Senator)
| About:
America and Americans,
Government
| Keywords:
elders, imperative, primitive, senate, territorial, the Senate, tribe
«When the tribe first sat down in a circle and agreed to allow only one person to speak at a time - that was the longest step forward in the history of law»
Author: Judge Curtis Bok
| About:
Law and lawyers
| Keywords:
agreed, circle, in a circle, longest, Sat, step forward, The History, The History of, tribe
«What more fiendish proof of cosmic irresponsibility than a Nature which, having invented sex as a way to mix genes, then permits to arise, amid all its perfumed and hypnotic inducements to mate, a tireless tribe of spirochetes and viruses that torture and kill us for following orders?»
Author: John Updike
| Keywords:
Amid, arise, cosmic, fiendish, gene, genes, hypnotic, inducement, inducements, irresponsibility, mate, mix, orders, perfumed, permits, tireless, torture, tribe, viruses
«Then the elders of the congregation said, How shall we do for wives for them that remain, seeing the women are destroyed out of Benjamin? / And they said, There must be an inheritance for them that be escaped of Benjamin, that a tribe be not destroyed out of Israel.»
«So there were delivered out of the thousands of Israel, a thousand of every tribe, twelve thousand armed for war.»
«So shall not the inheritance of the children of Israel remove from tribe to tribe: for every one of the children of Israel shall keep himself to the inheritance of the tribe of his fathers.»
«The prince of the children of Joseph, for the tribe of the children of Manasseh, Hanniel the son of Ephod.»
«The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| Keywords:
frightened, had, high, highs, individual, keep, loneliest, lonely, often, overwhelm, overwhelmed, overwhelms, owning, pay, pay for, price, priced, pricing, privilege, struggle, tribe, try
«Our loyalties must transcend our race, our tribe, our class, and our nation; and this means we must develop a world perspective.»
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Baptist Minister, Civil-Rights Leader)
| Keywords:
class, classed, class A, develop, loyalties, nation, other race, perspective, perspectives, race, that nation, transcend, transcended, tribe
«Still have I borne it with a patient shrug,For sufferance is the badge of all our tribe.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
badge, badges, borne, shrug, shrugged, shrugs, sufferance, tribe
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