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Letter "W" » waxes
«Do not weep. Do not wax indignant. Understand.»
Author: Baruch Spinoza
(Philosopher)
| About:
Understanding
| Keywords:
indignant, wax, waxes, waxing
«Look, I really don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive, you got to flap your arms and legs, you got to jump around a lot, you got to make a lot of noise, because life is the very opposite of death. And therefore, as I see it, if you're quiet, you're not living. You've got to be noisy, or at least your thoughts should be noisy and colorful and lively.»
«Death is patiently making my mask as I sleep. Each morning I awake to discover in the corners of my eyes the small tears of his wax.»
Author: Philip Dow
| About:
Death and dying
| Keywords:
awake, corners, mask, patiently, wax, waxes, waxing
«''I'' is a militant social tendency, working to hold and enlarge its place in the general current of tendencies. So far as it can it waxes, as all life does. To think of it as apart from society is a palpable absurdity of which no one could be guilty who really saw it as a fact of life.»
«For the rest, whatever we have got has been by infinite labor, and search, and ranging through every corner of nature; the difference is that instead of dirt and poison, we have rather chosen to fill our hives with honey and wax, thus furnishing mankind with the two noblest of things, which are sweetness and light.»
Author: Jonathan Swift
(Author, Satirist)
| Keywords:
chosen, corner, dirt, furnishing, furnishings, have got, hive, hives, honey, noblest, poison, ranging, search and, sweetness, sweetness and light, wax, waxes, waxing
«Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor»
«And the children of Israel were fruitful, and increased abundantly, and multiplied, and waxed exceeding mighty; and the land was filled with them.»
Author: Bible
| Keywords:
abundantly, Children of Israel, exceeding, fruitful, increased, Israel, mighty, multiplied, The Children, The Land, waxed, waxes, waxing
«Generally, about all perception, we can say that a sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way in which a piece of wax takes on the impress of a signet ring without the iron or gold»
Author: Aristotle
(Philosopher, Physician, Scientist)
| Keywords:
impress, iron, perception, receiving, ring, sensible, signet, signets, signet ring, the matter, wax, waxes, waxing
«What was my body to me? A kind of flunkey in my service. Let but my anger wax hot, my love grow exalted, my hatred collect in me, and that boasted solidarity between me and my body was gone.»
«American consumers have no problem with carcinogens, but they will not purchase any product, including floor wax, that has fat in it.»
Author: Dave Barry
(Humorist, Writer)
| About:
America and Americans
| Keywords:
American, consumers, fat, floor, floor wax, including, No problem, product, purchase, purchases, purchasing, The Purchase, wax, waxes, waxing
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