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«Property is unstable, and youth perishes in a moment. Life itself is held in the grinning fangs of Death, Yet men delay to obtain release from the world. Alas, the conduct of mankind is surprising.»
Author: Titus Maccius Plautus
| About:
Death and dying,
Life,
Mankind,
Youth
| Keywords:
alas, delay, fang, fangs, grinning, in a moment, obtain, perishes, release, surprising, The Conduct of Life, unstable
«The rise of Islam offers perhaps the most impressive example in world history of the power of words to alter human behavior in sudden, surprising ways.»
Author: William H. McNeill
| Keywords:
History of the, Human behavior, impressive, Islam, offers, surprising
«The surprising thing about young fools is how many survive to become old fools.»
Author: Doug Larson
| Keywords:
surprising
«Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence»
Author: James Madison
(President)
| About:
Religion
| Keywords:
begets, begot, sentiments, surprising, union
«True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing.»
Author: Jean Cocteau
(Actor, Film Director, Novelist, Painter, Poet)
| About:
Realism
| Keywords:
covered, prevents, realism, revealing, surprising
«Out of my general world-pattern-trend studies there now comes strong evidence that nothing is going to be quite so surprising and abrupt in the future history of man as the forward evolution in the educational process.»
Author: Richard Buckminster Fuller
| Keywords:
abrupt, educational, evolution, pattern, studies, surprising, The Forward, trend, trends
«The most important American addition to the World Experience was the simple surprising fact of America. We have helped prepare mankind for all its later surprises.»
«To a surprising extent the war-lords in shining armor, the apostles of the martial virtues, tend not to die fighting when the time comes. History is full of ignominious getaways by the great and famous.»
Author: George Orwell
(Essayist, Novelist)
| Keywords:
getaway, getaways, ignominious, lords, surprising, to a great extent, when the time comes
«Women can instantly see through each other, and it's surprising how little they observe that's pleasant.»
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