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«It could be that our faithlessness is a cowering cowardice born of our very smallness, a massive failure of imagination... If we were to judge nature by common sense or likelihood, we wouldn't believe the world existed.»
Author: Annie Dillard
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cowardice, cower, cowering, existed, faithlessness, in all likelihood, likelihood, massive, smallness
«It is very perplexing how an intrepid frontier people, who fought a wilderness, floods, tornadoes, and the Rockies, cower before criticism, which is regarded as a malignant tumor in the imagination.»
«Every genuine boy is a rebel and an anarch. If he were allowed to develop according to his own instincts, his own inclinations, society would undergo such a radical transformation as to make the adult revolutionary cower and cringe.»
Author: John Andrew Holmes
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Anarchy,
Boys,
Society
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cower, cowering, cringe, inclinations, instincts, radical, rebel, revolutionary, transformation, undergo
«The world enslaves our sex by the mere fear of an epithet; and as long as it can throw any vile term at us, before which we cower, it can maintain our enslavement»
Author: Tennessee Claflin
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World
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cower, cowering, enslavement, enslaves, epithet, epithets, vile
«Books, not which afford us a cowering enjoyment, but in which each thought is of unusual daring; such as an idle man cannot read, and a timid one would not be entertained by, which even make us dangerous to existing institution /such call I good books.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
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Books not, cower, cowering, entertained, timid, unusual
«Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them.»
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