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«The universe appears to me like an immense, inexorable torture-garden. Passions, greed, hatred, and lies; law, social institutions, justice, love, glory, heroism, and religion: these are its monstrous flowers and its hideous instruments of eternal human suffering.»
Author: Octave Mirbeau
| Keywords:
heroism, hideous, immense, inexorable, instruments, instrument of torture, monstrous, social justice
«Tyrants are seldom free; the cares and the instruments of their tyranny enslave them»
Author: George Santayana
(Humanist, Philosopher, Poet)
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Tyranny
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cares, enslave, enslaves, instruments, tyrants
«Upon books the collective education of the race depends; they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought.»
Author: Harry S Truman
(President)
| About:
Books,
Education
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collective, instruments, perpetuated, perpetuating, registered, registering, registers, sole, The Collective, The Register, transmits, transmitting
«The tuba is certainly the most intestinal of instruments, the very lower bowel of music.»
Author: Peter De Vries
(Editor, Linguist, Novelist, Satirist)
| Keywords:
bowel, instruments, intestinal, lower, tuba
«The singers went before, the players on instruments followed after; amongst them were the damsels playing with tumbrels.»
«We are all instruments endowed with feeling and memory. Our senses are so many strings that are struck by surrounding objects and that also frequently strike themselves.»
«This whole earth which we inhabit is but a point in space. How far apart, think you, dwell the two most distant inhabitants of yonder star, the breadth of whose disk cannot be appreciated by our instruments? Why should I feel lonely? Is not our planet in the Milky Way? This which you put seems to me not to be the most important question. What sort of space is that which separates a man from his fellows and makes him solitary? I have found that no exertion of the legs can bring two minds much nearer to one another.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
appreciated, breadth, disk, inhabit, Inhabitants, instruments, milky, Milky Way, our planet, planet Earth, separates, The Milky Way, yonder
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