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«The search for truth is not a trade by which a man can support himself; for a priest it is a supreme peril»
«Our masks, always in peril of smearing or cracking, in need of continuous check in the mirror or silverware, keep us in thrall to ourselves, concerned with our surfaces.»
«Like a flash of lightning and in an instant the truth was revealed. I drew with a stick on the sand the diagrams of my motor. A thousand secrets of nature which I might have stumbled upon accidentally I would have given for that one which I had wrestled from her against all odds and at the peril of my existence.»
«The true test of a leader is whether his followers will adhere to his cause from their own volition, enduring the most arduous hardships without being forced to do so, and remaining steadfast in the moments of greatest peril.»
«Only peril can bring the French together. One can't impose unity out of the blue on a country that has 265 different kinds of cheese.»
«No one is worthy of a good home here or in heaven that is not willing to be in peril for a good cause.»
«REFUGE, n. Anything assuring protection to one in peril. Moses and Joshua provided six cities of refuge --Bezer, Golan, Ramoth, Kadesh, Schekem and Hebron --to which one who had taken life inadvertently could flee when hunted by relatives of the deceased. This admirable expedient supplied him with wholesome exercise and enabled them to enjoy the pleasures of the chase; whereby the soul of the dead man was appropriately honored by observations akin to the funeral games of early Greece.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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admirable, akin, appropriately, assuring, Dead Man, expedient, Golan, Greece, honored, hunted, inadvertently, Kadesh, peril, Ramoth, The Chase, The Dead Man
«The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other, whom he assumes to have perfect vision.»
«Liberty without learning is always in peril and learning without liberty is always in vain»
Author: John Fitzgerald Kennedy
(President)
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Liberty
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in vain, peril, The Perils of, vain