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«At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty a nothing at all.»
«A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there.»
Author: Meister Eckhart
(Theologian, Writer)
| About:
Self awareness,
Soul
| Keywords:
cover, covering, coverings, depths, forty, go into, hides, ox, skins, thick, thick skin, thirty
«And he was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights; he did neither eat bread, nor drink water. And he wrote upon the tables the words of the covenant, the ten commandments.»
Author: Bible
| Keywords:
Commandments, covenant, covenanted, covenants, forty, nights, tables, Ten Commandments, The Covenant, The Ten, The Ten Commandments, writing table, wrote
«America, where thanks to Congress, there are forty million laws to enforce the Ten Commandments»
Author: Anatole France
(Writer)
| About:
America and Americans
| Keywords:
America, Commandments, congress, Congress of, enforce, enforces, enforcing, forty, Laws, million, ten, Ten Commandments, thanking, thanks, The Ten, The Ten Commandments
«'Why can't people just learn to live together in peace and harmony?' said Arthur. / Ford gave a loud, very hollow laugh. / 'Forty-two!' he said with a malicious grin, 'No, doesn't work. Never mind.'»
«A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| About:
Democracy
| Keywords:
democracy, fifty, Fifty one, forty-nine, forty, mob, mobs, Mob rule, nine, Nothing More, one percent, percent, take away