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«If nobody said anything unless he knew what he was talking about, a ghastly hush would descend upon the earth»
«Liberty is a great celestial Goddess, strong, beneficent, and austere, and she can never descend upon a nation by the shouting of crowds, nor by arguments of unbridled passion, nor by the hatred of class against class.»
«It's as if the horses have come to take us back, to descend, to find the dark side. By dark I mean what's hidden, not necessarily satanic.»
Author: Tori Amos
(Singer)
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dark horse, Dark Side, Dark Side of the, descend, horses, satanic, side horse
«Let Christ the King of Israel descend now from the cross, that we may see and believe. And they that were crucified with him reviled him.»
«For thus saith the Lord GOD; When I shall make thee a desolate city, like the cities that are not inhabited; when I shall bring up the deep upon thee, and great waters shall cover thee; / When I shall bring thee down with them that descend into the pit, with the people of old time, and shall set thee in the low parts of the earth, in places desolate of old, with them that go down to the pit, that thou be not inhabited; and I shall set glory in the land of the living; / I will make thee a terror, and thou shalt be no more: though thou be sought for, yet shalt thou never be found again, saith the Lord GOD.»
«I think every big town should contain artificial waterfalls that people can descend in very fragile canoes, and they should contain bathing pools full of mechanical sharks. Any person found advocating a preventive war should be condemned to two hours»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
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advocating, bathing, Big Town, canoe, canoes, condemned, descend, fragile, pools, preventive, Preventives, preventive war, sharking, sharks, waterfall, waterfalls
«May the winged birds that move in the air and in the sky descend; beasts of prey and insects shall seize upon them; the vultures that feed upon raw flesh shall hack into (their) carcasses!»
«Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed.»
«In all societies, it is advisable to associate if possible with the highest; not that the highest are always the best, but because, if disgusted there, we can descend at any time; but if we begin with the lowest, to ascend is impossible»
«I have been stressing the vital importance of people giving up this habit of eating non-vegetarian food even from my boyhood days. Meat eating fosters animal qualities in man making him descend to the demoniac level; it is a heart-rending sight to see cows being slaughtered to serve as food for man.»
Author: Sri Sathya Sai Baba
(Spiritual leader)
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cows, demoniac, descend, fosters, giving up, rending, slaughtered, Stressing