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«We're going through a kind of ancient, barbaric war dance now - it's almost an ultimate in absurdity.»
«The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions.»
Author: Robert Lynd
(Essayist, Journalist)
| Keywords:
ancient, appears, belief, come short, dangerous, decisive, for short, human, illusions, On War, possibility, short, shorts, short I, The War of the, war, warring
«We ourselves of the present age, chose our common law, and consented to the most ancient Acts of Parliament, for we lived in our ancestors 1,000 years ago, and those ancestors are still living in us»
Author: Robert Atkyns
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Parliament
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Act of Parliament, ancestors, ancient, chose, common law, consented, parliament, parliaments
«The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope.»
«We are lonesome animals. We spend all our life trying to be less lonesome. One of our ancient methods is to tell a story begging the listener to say -- and to feel -- ''Yes, that's the way it is, or at least that's the way I feel it. You're not as alone as you thought.''»
Author: John Steinbeck
(Novelist, Writer)
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ancient, begging, listener, listeners, lonesome, methods, spend-all, The Listener, The Way I Feel
«Trials by the adversarial contest must in time go the way of the ancient trial by battle and blood»
«The greatness of Christianity did not lie in attempted negotiations for compromise with any similar philosophical opinions in the ancient world, but in its inexorable fanaticism in preaching and fighting for its own doctrine»
Author: Adolf Hitler
(Chancellor)
| About:
Christianity
| Keywords:
ancient, Ancient World, compromise, doctrine, fanaticism, inexorable, lie in, negotiation, negotiations, philosophical, preaching, similar
«To modern educated people, it seems obvious that matters of fact are to be ascertained by observation, not by consulting ancient authorities. But this is an entirely modern conception, which hardly existed before the seventeenth century.»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
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ancient, ancient people, ascertain, ascertained, ascertaining, as a matter of fact, authorities, century, conception, consulting, existed, hardly, observation, obvious, seventeenth, seventeenth century
«The older I get, the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first - a process which often reduces the most complex human problems to manageable proportions»
Author: Dwight David Eisenhower
(President)
| About:
Elderly,
Mankind,
Wisdom
| Keywords:
ancient, complex, human process, manageable, proportions, reduces, rule of
«Where is your ancient courage? You were used to say extremities was the trier of spirits; That common chances common men could bear; That when the sea was calm all boats alike showed mastership in floating.»
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