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«A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery; it cannot be so refined, so leisurely and gentle, so temperate, kind, courteous, restrained and magnanimous. A revolution is an insurrection, an act of violence by which one class overthrows another.»
Author: Mao Zedong
| Keywords:
courteous, dinner party, embroidery, essay, Essays, insurrection, insurrections, insurrection of, leisurely, magnanimous, overthrows, picture writing, refined, restrained, temperate, the insurrection
«Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the life of a tree. If they are wholly restrained, love will die at the roots.»
Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
(Novelist, Writer)
| About:
Affection,
Love
| Keywords:
affections, caressed, Caresses, caressing, expressions, restrained, roots, The Roots, wholly
«A strong nation, like a strong person, can afford to be gentle, firm, thoughtful, and restrained. It can afford to extend a helping hand to others. It's a weak nation, like a weak person, that must behave with bluster and boasting and rashness and other signs of insecurity.»
Author: Jimmy Carter
(President)
| Keywords:
afford, bluster, blustering, boasting, extend, helping, helping hand, insecurity, rashness, restrained, signs, thoughtful
«And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.»
«And with these sayings scarce restrained they the people, that they had not done sacrifice unto them.»
«And God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the cattle that was with him in the ark: and God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters asswaged; / The fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained; / And the waters returned from off the earth continually: and after the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters were abated.»
«Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Capitalism
| Keywords:
advocated, advocates, advocating, apt, capitalism, embodied, embodies, embodying, exercise, fortunate, maxim, must not, principles, restrained, sacred, The Advocate, tyranny, unfortunate, unfortunates
«A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| About:
Education
| Keywords:
after death, effectually, ethical, ethical behavior, restrained, sympathy
«And Moses gave commandment, and they caused it to be proclaimed throughout the camp, saying, Let neither man nor woman make any more work for the offering of the sanctuary. So the people were restrained from bringing.»
Author: Bible
| Keywords:
restrained
«Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it»
Author: Seneca
| About:
Anger
| Keywords:
frequently, hurtful, if not, injury, provokes, restrained, restraining, restrains
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