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«When I say I love Eastland, it sounds preposterous--a man who brutalizes people. But *you* love him or you wouldn't be here. You're going to Mississippi to create social change--and you love Eastland in your desire to create conditions which will redeem his children. Loving your enemy is manifest in putting your arms not around the man but around the social situation, to take power from those who misuse it--at which point they can become human too»
Author: Bayard Rustin
(Activist)
| Keywords:
brutalize, brutalized, brutalizes, brutalizing, manifest, misuse, preposterous, redeem, social change, The Social
«You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.»
«The two most misused words in the entire English vocabulary are love and friendship. A true friend would die for you, so when you start trying to count them on one hand, you don't need any fingers.»
Author: Larry Flynt
(Publisher)
| About:
Friends,
Friendship,
Love,
Words
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count, die, Die Trying, English, entire, fingered, fingering, fingers, hand, misuse, misused, on one hand, start, tried and true, trying
«Stupidity is also a gift of God, but one mustn't misuse it»
«Pressure is a word that is misused in our vocabulary. When you start thinking of pressure, it's because you've started to think of failure.»
«Physical pleasure is a sensual experience no different from pure seeing or the pure sensation with which a fine fruit fills the tongue; it is a great unending experience, which is given us, a knowing of the world, the fullness and the glory of all knowing. And not our acceptance of it is bad; the bad thing is that most people misuse and squander this experience and apply it as a stimulant at the tired spots of their lives and as distraction instead of a rallying toward exalted moments.»
Author: Rainer Maria Rilke
| Keywords:
acceptance, all knowing, apply, Bad Thing, distraction, distractions, exalted, exalting, exalts, fills, fruit, fullness, glory, misuse, physical thing, physical world, rallies, rally, rallying, seeing, sensation, sensual, spots, squander, squandered, squandering, squanders, stimulant, stimulants, tired, unending
«Opposition is not necessarily enmity; it is merely misused and made an occasion for enmity.»
«O, she misused me past the endurance of a block.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Past
| Keywords:
block, endurance, misuse, misused
«Men deal with life as children with their play,Who first misuse, then cast their toys away.»
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