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«Not wishing to be disturbed over moral issues of the political economy, Americans cling to the notion that the government is a sort of automatic machine, regulated by the balancing of competing interests.»
Author: C. Wright Mills
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automatic, balancing, cling, cling to, competing, disturbed, economy, issues, political economy, political machine, regulated, wishing
«We cling to our own point of view, as though everything depended on it. Yet our opinions have no permanence; like autumn and winter, they gradually pass away.»
Author: Chuang Tzu
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autumn, cling, cling to, depended, gradually, pass away, permanence, point of view, view as
«Tradition! We scarcely know the word anymore. We are afraid to be either proud of our ancestors or ashamed of them. We scorn nobility in name and in fact. We cling to a bourgeois mediocrity which would make it appear we are all Americans, made in the image and likeness of George Washington.»
Author: Dorothy Day
(Founder, Journalist)
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cling, cling to, in name, likeness, nobility, scarcely
«No vision and you perish; No Ideal, and you're lost; Your heart must ever cherish Some faith at any cost. Some hope, some dream to cling to, Some rainbow in the sky, Some melody to sing to, Some service that is high.»
Author: Harriet Du Autermont
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at any cost, cherish, cling, cling to, cost, High Hopes, melodies, melody, perish, rainbow
«The sea rises, the light fails, lovers cling to each other, and children cling to us. The moment we cease to hold each other, the moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.»
Author: James Arthur Baldwin
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
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cling, cling to, engulf, engulfed, engulfs, fails, goes out, lovers, rises, The Sea, to each other
«Patience permits us to cling to our faith in the Lord when we are tossed about by suffering as if by surf. When the undertow grasps us we will realize that we are somehow being carried forward even as we tumble. We are actually being -helped even as we cry for help.»
«Nothing is quite so wretchedly corrupt as an aristocracy which has lost its power but kept its wealth and which still has endless leisure to devote to nothing but banal enjoyments. All its great thoughts and passionate energy are things of the past, and nothing but a host of petty, gnawing vices now cling to it like worms to a corpse.»
Author: Alexis de Tocqueville
(Historian, Political scientist)
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aristocracy, banal, cling, cling to, corpse, corrupt, devote, enjoyments, gnawing, gnaws, host, passionate, petty, worms, wretchedly
«The real differences around the world today are not between Jews and Arabs; Protestants and Catholics; Muslims, Croats, and Serbs. The real differences are between those who embrace peace and those who would destroy it; between those who look to the future and those who cling to the past; between those who open their arms and those who are determined to clench their fists.»
Author: Bill Clinton
(President)
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Arabs, Catholics, clench, clenched, clenched fist, clenching, cling, cling to, fists, Jews, look to, Muslims, Protestants
«The cry has been that when war is declared, all opposition should therefore be hushed. A sentiment more unworthy of a free country could hardly be propagated. If the doctrine be admitted, rulers have only to declare war and they are screened at once from scrutiny. . . . In war, then, as in peace, assert the freedom of speech and of the press. Cling to this as the bulwark of all our rights and privileges.»
Author: William Ellery Channing
(Author, Clergyman)
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«The way in which men cling to old institutions after the life has departed out of them, and out of themselves, reminds me of those monkeys which cling by their tails -- aye, whose tails contract about the limbs, even the dead limbs, of the forest, and they hang suspended beyond the hunter's reach long after they are dead. It is of no use to argue with such men. They have not an apprehensive intellect, but merely, as it were a prehensile tail.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
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apprehensive, as it were, Aye, cling, cling to, contract, departed, hunter, limbs, Monkeys, prehensile, reminds, suspended, tails, The Hunter
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