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Letter "U" » union
«The man whose whole activity is diverted to inner meditation becomes insensible to all his surroundings. If he loves, it is not to give himself, to blend in fecund union with another being, but to meditate on his love. His passions are mere appearances, being sterile. They are dissipated in futile imaginings, producing nothing external to themselves.»
Author: Emile Durkheim
(Sociologist)
| Keywords:
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«People drain me, even the closest of friends, and I find loneliness to be the best state in the union to live in.»
Author: Margaret Cho
(Comedian)
| About:
Loneliness
| Keywords:
closest, drain, draining, drains, the union, union
«The soul that is attached to anything however much good there may be in it, will not arrive at the liberty of divine union. For whether it be a strong wire rope or a slender and delicate thread that holds the bird, it matters not, if it really holds it fast; for, until the cord be broken the bird cannot fly.»
«The happy Union of these States is a wonder; their Constitution a miracle; their example the hope of Liberty throughout the world»
«The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.»
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(Critic, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Marriage
| Keywords:
deaf, the union, union
«The only hope of socialism resides in those who have already brought about in themselves, as far as is possible in the society of today, that union between manual and intellectual labor which characterizes the society we are aiming at.»
Author: Simone Weil
(Activist, Mystic, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
aiming, as far as possible, brought about, characterize, characterizes, Labor unions, manual, reside, resides, residing, socialism, Society of, The Manual, union
«Their lives were ruined,he thought; ruined by the fundamental error of their matrimonial union: that of having based a permanent contract on a temporary feeling . . .»
Author: Thomas Hardy
(Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
contract, fundamental, matrimonial, permanent, ruined, temporary, union
«Space by itself, and time by itself, are doomed to fade away into mere shadows, and only a kind union of the two will preserve an independent reality»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| About:
Space,
Time
| Keywords:
doomed, fade, fade away, fading away, independent, preserve, shadows, union
«No king on earth is as safe in his job as a Trade Union official. There is only one thing that can get him sacked; and that is drink. Not even that, as long as he doesn't actually fall down.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
Down to Earth, fall down, official, sacked, trade, trade union, Trade unions, union
«The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and declare our own impressions.»
Author: T.S. Eliot
(Critic, Editor, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Freedom,
Happiness
| Keywords:
declare, degrees of freedom, degree of freedom, derived, higher degree, impressions, intense, to a higher degree, to the highest degree, union
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