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apprehensive
«When a fellow you knew in school attains some lofty public office, you're glad for his sake - but somewhat apprehensive for the future of the country»
Author: Bill Vaughn
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apprehensive
«I have a curious and apprehensive feeling as I watch JFK that he is sort of an Indian snake charmer.»
Author: Dean Acheson
(Diplomat, Lawyer, Statesman)
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Feelings
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apprehensive, charmer, charmers, Indian, JFK, snake, snake charmer
«A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side.»
Author: Aristotle
(Philosopher, Physician, Scientist)
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appearance, apprehensive, devotion, fearing, god-fearing, illegal, on the other hand, pious, put on, ruler, subjects, treatment, tyrant, uncommon
«The way in which men cling to old institutions after the life has departed out of them, and out of themselves, reminds me of those monkeys which cling by their tails -- aye, whose tails contract about the limbs, even the dead limbs, of the forest, and they hang suspended beyond the hunter's reach long after they are dead. It is of no use to argue with such men. They have not an apprehensive intellect, but merely, as it were a prehensile tail.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
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apprehensive, as it were, Aye, cling, cling to, contract, departed, hunter, limbs, Monkeys, prehensile, reminds, suspended, tails, The Hunter