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The Strange
«One of the strange things about living in the world is that it is only now and then one is quite sure one is going to live forever and ever and ever. One knows it sometimes when one gets up at the tender solemn dawn-time and goes out and stands alone and throws one's head far back and looks up and up and watches the pale sky slowly changing and flushing and marvelous unknown things happening until the East almost makes one cry out and one's heart stands still at the strange unchanging majesty of the rising of the sun?which has been happening every morning for thousands and thousands and thousands of years. One knows it then for a moment or so...»
Author: Frances Burnett
| About:
Dawn,
Immortality,
Moments,
Time
| Keywords:
cry out, Far East, flush, flushed, flushes, goes out, majesty, marvelous, or so, solemn, The East, the pale, The Rising, The Strange, throws, unchanging, watches
«Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.»
Author: James Thurber
(Writer)
| About:
Love
| Keywords:
account, bewilderment, one-person, overtaken, overtakes, overtaking, The Strange
«In the strange heat all litigation brings to bear on things, the very process of litigation fosters the most profound misunderstandings in the world.»
Author: Renata Adler
| Keywords:
bear on, bring to bear, fostered, fostering, fosters, litigation, misunderstandings, The Strange
«I have discovered that most ofthe beauties of travel are due tothe strange hours we keep to see them. . . .»
«Then Jacob said unto his household, and to all that were with him, Put away the strange gods that are among you, and be clean, and change your garments: / And let us arise, and go up to Bethel; and I will make there an altar unto God, who answered me in the day of my distress, and was with me in the way which I went.»
«Now therefore put away, said he, the strange gods which are among you, and incline your heart unto the LORD God of Israel.»
Author: Bible
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The Strange
«Say unto wisdom, Thou art my sister; and call understanding thy kinswoman: / That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger which flattereth with her words.»
«Now therefore make confession unto the LORD God of your fathers, and do his pleasure: and separate yourselves from the people of the land, and from the strange wives.»
«It is we who are the measure of what is strange and miraculous: if we sought a universal measure the strange and miraculous would not occur and all things would be equal.»
Author: Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
| Keywords:
The Strange
«Take away from Genesis the belief that Moses was the author, on which only the strange belief that it is the word of God has stood, and there remains nothing of Genesis but an anonymous book of stories, fables, and traditional or invented absurdities»
Author: Thomas Paine
(Writer)
| Keywords:
absurdities, anonymous, Book of, Book of Moses, fables, Genesis, Moses, stood, take away, The Author, The Strange, traditional, Word of God