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Letter "V" » vantage
«Life is like a landscape. You live in the midst of it but can describe it only from the vantage point of distance.»
«An unusually tranquil skyscraping vantage-a kind of front porch 850 feet in the air.»
«As for my father, few souls are less troubled. He can be simply pleased with us, pleased that we exist, and, from the vantage point of his wondrously serene old age, he contemplates our lives almost as if they were books he can dip into whenever he wants. His back pages, perhaps.»
Author: Angela Carter
(Novelist, Writer)
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dip, dip into, serene, vantage, vantage point, wondrously
«While nobody likes a watchdog, and for that reason many investigation committees are unpopular, I thank God for men who, in the face of public denouncement and ridicule, go loyally on in their work of exposing the pinks, the lavenders and the reds who have sought refuge beneath the wings of the American eagle and from that vantage point try in every subtle, undercover way to bring comfort, aid and help to the greatest enemy we have ever known -- communism.»
Author: Billy Graham
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American eagle, committees, denouncement, eagle, exposing, investigation, lavender, lavenders, pinks, Public Enemy, public works, Reds, ridicule, The Wings, undercover, unpopular, vantage, vantage point, watchdog
«No pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage-ground of truth.»
Author: Francis Bacon, Sr.
(Lawyer, Philosopher)
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comparable, comparable to, comparable with, vantage
«It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of truth.»
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