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«He who slings mud generally loses ground.»
Author: Adlai E. Stevenson
(Ambassador, Governor, Politician)
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generally, ground, loses, mud, slings, slung
«All souls must undergo transmigration and the souls of men revolve like a stone which is thrown from a sling, so many turns before the final release... Only those who have not completed their perfection must suffer the wheel of rebirth by being reborn into another human body.»
Author: Jean Paul Richter
(Novelist)
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All Souls, completed, human body, rebirth, reborn, release, revolve, sling, slings, slung, The wheel, transmigration, undergo
«I was so ugly my mother used to feed me with a sling shot.»
«So David prevailed over the Philistine with a sling and with a stone, and smote the Philistine, and slew him; but there was no sword in the hand of David.»
«As he that bindeth a stone in a sling, so is he that giveth honour to a fool.»
«And he took his staff in his hand, and chose him five smooth stones out of the brook, and put them in a shepherd's bag which he had, even in a scrip; and his sling was in his hand: and he drew near to the Philistine.»
«Among all this people there were seven hundred chosen men lefthanded; every one could sling stones at an hair breadth, and not miss.»
«Taken in context, what I was saying was that, compared to Europe, America is a very young country and we are still growing as a nation. It is a shame that the metaphor I used was taken so radically out of context and slung about irresponsibly by the news media. There was no anti-American sentiment. In fact, it was just the opposite. I am an American. I love my country and have great hopes for it. It is for this reason that I speak candidly and sometimes critically about it. I have benefited greatly from the freedom that exists in my country and for this I am eternally grateful.»
Author: Johnny Depp
(Actor)
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anti, an American, benefited, candidly, compared, context, critically, eternally, Europe, grateful, greatly, In Context, irresponsibly, media, My Country, news, news media, radically, sentiment, slings, slung, The News
«A word from the mouth is like a stone from a sling.»
Author: Spanish Proverb
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by word of mouth, mouth, sling, slings, slung, stone, stoning, word, word of mouth
«The Minstrel Boy to the war is gone, / In the ranks of death you'll find him; / His father's sword he has girded on, / And his wild harp slung behind him.»
Author: Thomas More
(Chancellor, Humanist, Statesman)
| Keywords:
girded, harp, ranks, slung, The Minstrel
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