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ravages
«The work of the political activist inevitably involves a certain tension between the requirement that position be taken on current issues as they arise and the desire that one's contributions will somehow survive the ravages of time.»
Author: Angela Davis
| About:
Politics,
Work
| Keywords:
activist, activists, contributions, inevitably, issues, ravage, ravaged, ravages, tension
«Only when manhood is dead - and it will perish when ravaged femininity no longer sustains it - only then will we know what it is to be free.»
«Who is there who has not been overcome by the ravages of time? What beggar has attained glory? Who has become happy by contracting the vices of the wicked?»
«LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder. This disease, like _caries_ and many other ailments, is prevalent only among civilized races living under artificial conditions; barbarous nations breathing pure air and eating simple food enjoy immunity from its ravages. It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the physician than to the patient.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
ailment, ailments, Air conditioning, barbarous, breathing, caries, Cary, curable, disorder, eating disorder, immunity, incurred, incurring, incurs, influences, physician, prevalent, pure and simple, races, ravage, ravaged, ravages, removal, temporary insanity
«TOPE, v. To tipple, booze, swill, soak, guzzle, lush, bib, or swig. In the individual, toping is regarded with disesteem, but toping nations are in the forefront of civilization and power. When pitted against the hard-drinking Christians the absemious Mahometans go down like grass before the scythe. In India one hundred thousand beef- eating and brandy-and-soda guzzling Britons hold in subjection two hundred and fifty million vegetarian abstainers of the same Aryan race. With what an easy grace the whisky-loving American pushed the temperate Spaniard out of his possessions! From the time when the Berserkers ravaged all the coasts of western Europe and lay drunk in every conquered port it has been the same way: everywhere the nations that drink too much are observed to fight rather well and not too righteously. Wherefore the estimable old ladies who abolished the canteen from the American army may justly boast of having materially augmented the nation's military power.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
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«The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
advised, ill-advised, Marriages, ravage, ravaged, ravages, virginity
«We all carry within us our places of exile, our crimes, and our ravages. But our task is not to unleash them on the world; it is to fight them in ourselves and in others.»
Author: Albert Camus
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
carry, carrying out, carry over, carry through, crimes, exile, exiled, exiles, fight, places, ravage, ravaged, ravages, task, The Exile, unleash, unleashed, unleashes, Unleashing
«Every citizen will be able, in his productive years when he is earning, to insure himself against the ravages of illness in his old age.»
Author: Lyndon B. Johnson
(President)
| About:
Citizenship
| Keywords:
earning, insure, insures, insuring, productive, ravage, ravaged, ravages
«Concepts, like individuals, have their histories and are just as incapable of withstanding the ravages of time as are individuals. But in and through all this they retain a kind of homesickness for the scenes of their childhood.»
Author: Soren Kierkegaard
(Philosopher, Theologian)
| Keywords:
concepts, Histories, homesickness, ravage, ravaged, ravages, retain, scenes, withstanding