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«We shelter children for a time; we live side by side with men; and that is all. We owe them nothing, and are owed nothing. I think we owe our friends more, especially our female friends.»
«Our country is not the only thing to which we owe our allegiance. It is also owed to justice and to humanity. Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong.»
Author: James Bryce
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Patriotism
| Keywords:
allegiance, flag, flag waving, owed, righteous, waving
«I have owed you this letter for a very long time-but my fingers have avoided the pencil as though it were an old and poisoned tool.»
«He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.»
«To my great-grandfather I owed the advice to dispense with the education of the schools and have good masters at home instead - and to realize that no expense should be grudged for this purpose»
Author: Marcus Aurelius
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Family
| Keywords:
dispense with, grandfather, great grandfather, grudged, owed
«I regard it as a duty which I owed, not just to my people, but also to my profession, to the practice of law, and to the justice for all mankind, to cry out against this discrimination which is essentially unjust and opposed to the whole basis of the attitude towards justice which is part of the tradition of legal training in this country. I believed that in taking up a stand against this injustice I was upholding the dignity of what should be an honorable profession.»
Author: Nelson Mandela
(Statesman)
| About:
Discrimination
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cry out, discrimination, legal, legal profession, owed, practice of law, The Practice, unjust, upholding
«Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.»
Author: Winston Churchill
(Author, Orator, Prime Minister)
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conflict, conflict of, few, field, fielding, human, many, much, owed, so much, The Field
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