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«The art of a people is a true mirror of their minds»
«There is something ridiculous and even quite indecent in an individual claiming to be happy. Still more a people or a nation making such a claim. The pursuit of happiness... is without any question the most fatuous which could possibly be undertaken. This lamentable phrase ''the pursuit of happiness'' is responsible for a good part of the ills and miseries of the modern world.»
Author: Malcolm Muggeridge
| Keywords:
a people, claiming, fatuous, good part, ills, indecent, lamentable, miseries, modern world, phrase, The Pursuit of Happiness, undertaken
«Our young people have come to look upon war as a kind of beneficent deity, which not only adds to the national honor but uplifts a nation and develops patriotism and courage. That is all true. But it is only fair, too, to let them know that the garments of the deity are filthy and that some of her influences debase and befoul a people.»
Author: Rebecca Harding Davis
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adds, a people, befoul, befouled, beneficent, debase, debased, debases, debasing, deity, develops, filthy, garments, influences, look upon, patriotism, The National, uplift, uplifted, uplifting, uplifts
«I am sure that never was a people, who had more reason to acknowledge a Divine interposition in their affairs, than those of the United States; and I should be pained to believe that they have forgotten that agency, which was so often manifested during our Revolution, or that they failed to consider the omnipotence of that God who is alone able to protect them.»
Author: George Washington
(President)
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acknowledge, affairs, agency, a people, failed, interposition, manifested, manifesting, omnipotence, pained, protect, revolution, States, state of affairs, The Agency, the United States, united, United States
«Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.»
Author: James Madison
(President)
| About:
Knowledge
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arm, a people, govern, governors, governors and
«Men of integrity, by their very existence, rekindle the belief that as a people we can live above the level of moral squalor. We need that belief; a cynical community is a corrupt community.»
«The greatest height of heroism to which an individual, like a people, can attain is to know how to face ridicule»
Author: Miguel de Unamuno
(Author, Philosopher)
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Heroism
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attain, a people, height, heroism, ridicule
«The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating»
Author: Tom Robbins
(Novelist)
| About:
Mankind
| Keywords:
a people, bottom, bottom line, creating, mediocre, one and only, The Bottom, the bottom line, The One and Only, transformed, vile
«The degree of civilization which a people has reached, no doubt, is marked by their anxiety to do as they would be done by»
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
(Humorist, Physician, Poet, Professor, Writer)
| About:
Civilization
| Keywords:
a people, marked, no doubt
«There is no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people is no more determined by their numbers than the greatness of a man is by his height»
Author: Victor Hugo
(Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Greatness
| Keywords:
a people, determined, height, numbers
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