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Letter "U" » uneasy
«Men are made uneasy; they flinch; they cannot bear the sudden light; a general restlessness supervenes; the face of society is disturbed, or perhaps convulsed; old interests and old beliefs have been destroyed before new ones have been created. These symptoms are the precursors of revolution; they have preceded all the great changes through which the world has passed.»
Author: Henry Thomas Buckle
| Keywords:
disturbed, flinch, flinching, general interest, preceded, precursor, precursors, uneasy
«Americans are uneasy with their possessions, guilty about power, all of which is difficult for Europeans to perceive because they are themselves so truly materialistic, so versed in the uses of power.»
Author: Joan Didion
(Journalist, Novelist)
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Europeans, materialistic, possessions, uneasy, Versed
«Advice is like castor oil, easy enough to give but dreadful uneasy to take.»
Author: Josh Billings
(Humorist)
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Advice
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Castor, Castor and, castor oil, dreadful, oil, uneasy
«He had the uneasy manner of a man who is not among his own kind, and who has not seen enough of the world to feel that all people are in some sense his own kind»
«I observe that a very large portion of the human race does not believe in God and suffers no visible punishment in consequence. And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that he would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Belief,
God,
Mankind,
Vanity
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consequence, offended, portion, suffers, uneasy, visible
«I have never smuggled anything in my life. Why, then, do I feel an uneasy sense of guilt on approaching a customs barrier?»
«Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room.»
«It is thus that mutual cowardice keeps us in peace. Were one half of mankind brave and one cowards, the brave would be always beating the cowards. Were all brave, they would lead a very uneasy life; all would be continually fighting; but being all cowards, we go on very well.»
«Every man who attacks my belief, diminishes in some degree my confidence in it, and therefore makes me uneasy; and I am angry with him who makes me uneasy.»
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