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«There is nothing like a Bach fugue to remove me from a discordant moment... only Bach hold up fresh and strong after repeated playing. I can always return to Bach when the other records weary me.»
«Some women hold up dresses that are so ugly and they always say the same thing: 'This looks much better on.' On what? On fire?»
«Stand still... and refuse to retreat. Look at it as God looks at it and draw upon His power to hold up under the blast.»
Author: Charles R. Swindoll
(Clergyman, Writer)
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As god, blast, blasted, blasting, draw, drawing power, hold up, refuse, retreat, retreated, retreating, retreats, stand still
«So long as there is one pretty girl left on the stage, the professional undertakers may hold up their burial of the theater.»
Author: George Jean Nathan
(Critic, Editor, Essayist, Journalist)
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burial, hold up, The Professional, The Undertaker, undertakers
«Women hold up half the sky»
Author: Mao Tse-Tung
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hold up
«Of a truth, Knowledge is power, but it is a power reined by scruple, having a conscience of what must be and what may be; whereas Ignorance is a blind giant who, let him but wax unbound, would make it a sport to seize the pillars that hold up the long-wrought fabric of human good, and turn all the places of joy as dark as a buried Babylon.»
«There is no ancient gentlemen but gardeners, ditchers, and grave-makers; they hold up Adam's profession»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
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Adam, gardeners, gentlemen, hold up, Makers