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«It is not alone the fact that women have generally had to spend most of their strength in caring for others that has handicapped them in individual effort; but also that they have almost universally had to care wholly for themselves»
«Everyone knows that by far the happiest and universally enjoyable age of man is the first. What is there about babies which makes us hug and kiss and fondle them, so that even an enemy would give them help at that age?»
Author: Desiderius Erasmus
(Editor, Humanist, Priest)
| Keywords:
Age of Man, enjoyable, fondle, fondles, hug, universally
«How can I be expected to believe that this same racial discrimination which has been the cause of so much injustice and suffering right through the years, should now operate here to give me a fair and open trial?....consider myself neither morally nor legally obliged to obey laws made by a Parliament in which I am not represented. That the will of the people is the basis of the authority of government, is a principle universally acknowledged as sacred throughout the civilized world.»
Author: Nelson Mandela
(Statesman)
| About:
Discrimination
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acknowledged, discrimination, legally, morally, obliged, operate, parliament, parliaments, racial, racial discrimination, represented, The Authority, trial, universally
«Everybody hates me because I'm so universally liked.»
«It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.»
«It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising it; consequently, the defenders of every kind of regime claim that it is a democracy, and fear that they might have to stop using the word if it were tied down to any one meaning.»
Author: George Orwell
(Essayist, Novelist)
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consequently, defender, defenders, democratic, praising, regime, regimes, The Defenders, tied, universally
«It is impossible to think of a man of any actual force and originality, universally recognized as having those qualities, who spent his whole life appraising and describing the work of other men.»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
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actual, appraise, appraising, describing, originality, recognized, universally
«It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife»
Author: Jane Austen
(Novelist, Writer)
| About:
Fortune,
Truth
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acknowledged, fortune, good fortune, possession, universally
«If what appears little be universally despised, nothing greater can be attained; for all that is great was at first little, and rose to its present bulk by gradual accessions and accumulated labours»
«A Thaum is the basic unit of magical strength. It has been universally established as the amount of magic needed to create one small white pigeon or three normal-sized billiard balls.»
Author: Terry Pratchett
(Writer)
| About:
Magic
| Keywords:
balls, basic unit, billiard, billiards, established, magical, normal, pigeon, sized, small white, unit, units, universally
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