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«An actor is at his best a kind of unfrocked priest who, for an hour or two, can call on heaven and hell to mesmerize a group of innocents.»
Author: Alec Guinness
| About:
Actors and acting
| Keywords:
Best A, call on, Heaven and Hell, innocents, mesmerize, mesmerized
«I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.»
«Because they have forsaken me, and have estranged this place, and have burned incense in it unto other gods, whom neither they nor their fathers have known, nor the kings of Judah, and have filled this place with the blood of innocents; / They have built also the high places of Baal, to burn their sons with fire for burnt offerings unto Baal, which I commanded not, nor spake it, neither came it into my mind: / Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that this place shall no more be called Tophet, nor The valley of the son of Hinnom, but The valley of slaughter.»
Author: Bible
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Burnt Offerings, estranged, estranges, estranging, Hinnom, innocents, slaughter
«Also in thy skirts is found the blood of the souls of the poor innocents: I have not found it by secret search, but upon all these.»
«In all institutions from which the cold wind of open criticism is excluded, an innocent corruption begins to grow like a mushroom - for example, in senates and learned societies»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| Keywords:
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«Colonial system, public debts, heavy taxes, protection, commercial wars, etc., these offshoots of the period of manufacture swell to gigantic proportions during the period of infancy of large-scale industry. The birth of the latter is celebrated by a vast, Hero-like slaughter of the innocents.»
Author: Karl Marx
(Philosopher)
| Keywords:
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«A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and became the ransom of the world. It was a perfect act.»
Author: Mahatma Gandhi
(Philosopher)
| Keywords:
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«Art is never chaste. It ought to be forbidden to ignorant innocents, never allowed into contact with those not sufficiently prepared. Yes, art is dangerous. Where it is chaste, it is not art.»
«Millions of innocent men, women, and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burned, tortured, fined, and imprisoned, yet we have not advanced one inch toward uniformity. What has been the effect of coercion? To make one half of the world fools and the other half hypocrites.»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| About:
Atheism
| Keywords:
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«For he hears the lambs innocent call.And he hears the ewes tender reply.He is watchful while they are in peace.For they know when their Shepherd is nigh.»
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