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«A farmer who had a quarrelsome family called his sons and told them to lay a bunch of sticks before him. Then, after laying the sticks parallel to one another and binding them, he challenged his sons, one after one, to pick up the bundle and break it. They all tried, but in vain. Then, untying the bundle, he gave them the sticks to break one by one. This they did with the greatest ease. Then said the father, Thus, my sons, as long as you remain united, you are a match for anything, but differ and separate, and you are undone.»
Author: Aesop
(Author, Fabulist)
| Keywords:
binding, bunch, bundle, bundles, bundling, challenged, differ, ease, farmer, for anything, in parallel, in vain, laying, match, My Sons, one by one, parallel, paralleled, pick up, quarrelsome, separate, sons, sticks, The Father, the sticks, undone, untie, untied, untying
«Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.»
«Now that women are jockeys, baseball umpires, atomic scientists, and business executives, maybe someday they can master parallel parking.»
Author: Bill Vaughn
| About:
Women
| Keywords:
atomic, executives, jockey, jockeys, parallel, parking, scientists, umpires
«I can recall no parallel in history where a great nation recently at war has so distinguished its former enemy commander.»
Author: Douglas MacArthur
(General)
| About:
History,
Nations,
War
| Keywords:
commander, commanders, distinguished, former, Great War, in history, in parallel, parallel, paralleled, recall, recently
«None but himself can be his parallel.»
«Parallel to the training of the body a struggle against the poisoning of the soul must begin»
Author: Adolf Hitler
(Chancellor)
| Keywords:
in parallel, parallel, paralleled, poisoning, training
«LICKSPITTLE, n. A useful functionary, not infrequently found editing a newspaper. In his character of editor he is closely allied to the blackmailer by the tie of occasional identity; for in truth the lickspittle is only the blackmailer under another aspect, although the latter is frequently found as an independent species. Lickspittling is more detestable than blackmailing, precisely as the business of a confidence man is more detestable than that of a highway robber; and the parallel maintains itself throughout, for whereas few robbers will cheat, every sneak will plunder if he dare.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
blackmail, blackmailed, blackmailer, confidence man, detestable, functionaries, functionary, highway, infrequently, in truth, maintains, occasional, parallel, plunder, sneak, sneaking, Truth The
«There never were, since the creation of the world, two cases exactly parallel»
Author: Lord Chesterfield
(Diplomat, Statesman, Wit)
| Keywords:
cases, in parallel, parallel, paralleled, The Creation
«There isn't a Parallel of Latitude but thinks it would have been the Equator if it had its rights»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
equator, latitude, latitudes, parallel, parallel of latitude
«If one attempts to assign to religion its place in man's evolution, it seems not so much to be a lasting acquisition, as a parallel to the neurosis which the civilized individual must pass through on his way from childhood to maturity»
Author: Sigmund Freud
(Founder)
| About:
Childhood,
Evolution,
Maturity,
Religion
| Keywords:
acquisition, assign, attempts, parallel, pass through
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