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«Summer is the time when one sheds one's tensions with one's clothes, and the right kind of day is jeweled balm for the battered spirit. A few of those days and you can become drunk with the belief that all's right with the world.»
«The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed,Lets in new light through chinks that time has made.Stronger by weakness, wiser men become,As they draw near to their eternal home.»
«The source of most human violence and suffering has been ahidden children's holocaust throughout history, whereby billionsof innocent human beings have been routinely murdered, bound,starved, raped, mutilated, battered and tortured by their parentsand other caregivers, so that they grow up as emotionally crippledadults and become vengeful time bombs who periodically restagetheir early traumas in sacrificial rites called wars.»
Author: Lloyd deMause
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«Pornography is the instruction. Rape is the practice, battered women are the practice, and battered children are the practice.»
Author: Gloria Steinem
(Activist, Writer)
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batter, battered, battering, batters, instruction, pornography, rape, raped, raping, The Practice
«And they came and besieged him in Abel of Bethmaachah, and they cast up a bank against the city, and it stood in the trench: and all the people that were with Joab battered the wall, to throw it down.»
«Out of defeat can come the best in human nature. As Christians face storms of adversity, they may rise with more beauty. They are like trees that grow on mountain ridges -- battered by winds, yet trees in which we find the strongest wood.»
«At his wife's 60th birthday party in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, Dick Cheney had a huge steak and battered onion rings for dinner. Afterwards he met with 100 donors, not campaign donors, heart donors.»
Author: Jay Leno
(Comedian, Host)
| About:
Birthday
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battered, birthday, birthday party, campaign, Cheney, dick, dinner party, donor, donors, Jackson, Jackson Hole, onion, onion rings, rings, Wyoming
«Sex is full of lies. The body tries to tell the truth. But, it's usually too battered with rules to be heard, and bound with pretenses so it can hardly move. We cripple ourselves with lies.»
«People who make puns are like wanton boys that put coppers on the railroad tracks. They amuse themselves and other children, but their little trick may upset a freight train of conversation for the sake of a battered witticism.»
«One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph»
Author: Virginia Woolf
(Writer)
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batter, battered, battering, batters, misfortune, prodigious, siege, sieges, The Siege
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