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«A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.»
Author: Abraham J. Heschel
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Age,
Elderly,
Respect,
Testing
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a people, behaves, care for, child care, cult, cults, Cult of the, dictators, Easy to Love, fond, gold mine, helpless, incurable, incurables, mines, old gold, The Cult, The Dictators, tyrants
«Whenever I'm with my mother, I feel as though I have to spend the whole time avoiding land mines. The Kitchen God's Wife»
«The highway is replete with culinary land mines disguised as quaint local restaurants that carry such reassuring names as Millie's, Pop's and Capt'n Dick's.»
Author: Bryan Miller
| About:
Cooking
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culinary, dick, disguised, highway, land mines, local, mines, pop, quaint, reassuring, replete, restaurants, the highway
«Smell brings to mind... a family dinner of pot roast and sweet potatoes during a myrtle-mad August in a Midwestern town. Smells detonate softly in our memory like poignant land mines hidden under the weedy mass of years.»
Author: Diane Ackerman
(Writer)
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August, detonate, land mines, midwestern, mines, myrtle, poignant, pot, potatoes, pot roast, roast, roasting, smells, softly, sweet potato, weedy
«In the age of acorns, before the times of Ceres, a single barley-corn had been of more value to mankind than all the diamonds of the mines of India»
«I asked a Burmese why women, after centuries of following their men, now walk ahead. He said there were many unexploded land mines since the war.»
Author: Robert Mueller
| About:
Men and Women,
Women
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ahead, asked, Burmese, centuries, following, land, land mines, mines, on land, The War, unexploded, walk, war
«One's own self is well hidden from one's own self; of all mines of treasure, one's own is the last to be dug up.»
«Beautiful credit! The foundation of modern society. Who shall say that this is not the golden age of mutual trust, of unlimited reliance upon human promises? That is a peculiar condition of society which enables a whole nation to instantly recognize point and meaning in the familiar newspaper anecdote, which puts into the mouth of a distinguished speculator in lands and mines this remark: -- ''I wasn't worth a cent two years ago, and now I owe two millions of dollars.''»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
anecdote, cent, distinguished, enables, Golden Age, golden mean, instantly, lands, land mines, million years ago, mines, Modern Age, modern society, mutual, newspaper, peculiar, promised land, reliance, remark, speculator, speculators, The Golden Age, The Modern Age, unlimited
«Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests and mines and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| About:
Quotations
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ancestors, forests, mines, quarries, quarry, quotation, The Quarry
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