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«Among the best traitors Ireland has ever had, Mother Church ranks at the very top, a massive obstacle in the path to equality and freedom. She has been a force for conservatism... to ward off threats to her own security and influence.»
Author: Bernadette Devlin
(Politician)
| Keywords:
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«I refuse to spend my life worrying about what I eat. There is no pleasure worth forgoing just for an extra three years in the geriatric ward.»
«I am obliged to confess that I do not regard the abolition of slavery as a means of warding off the struggle of the two races in the Southern states. The Negroes may long remain slaves without complaining; but if they are once raised to the level of freemen, they will soon revolt at being deprived of almost all their civil rights; and as they cannot become the equals of the whites, they will speedily show themselves as enemies.»
Author: Alexis de Tocqueville
(Historian, Political scientist)
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«Anyone who cannot come to terms with his life while he is alive needs one hand to ward off a little his despair over his fate... but with his other hand he can note down what he sees among the ruins.»
«Thus cleansed I them from all strangers, and appointed the wards of the priests and the Levites, every one in his business; / And for the wood offering, at times appointed, and for the firstfruits. Remember me, O my God, for good.»
«Merely through the constant need to ward off, one can become weak enough to be unable to defend oneself any longer.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
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any longer, constant, defend, longer, oneself, unable, ward, warding, ward off, weak
«Turn the key deftly in the oil?d wards, / And seal the hush?d Casket of my Soul.»
«Not our logical faculty, but our imaginative one is king over us. I might say, priest and prophet to lead us to heaven-ward, or magician and wizard to lead us hellward.»
Author: Thomas Carlyle
(Essayist, Historian)
| Keywords:
faculty, imaginative, logical, magician, priest, prophet, The Magician, ward, warding, wizard
«To have a group of cloistered clinicians away completely from the broad current of professional life would be bad for teacher and worse for student. The primary work of a professor of medicine in a medical school is in the wards, teaching his pupils how to deal with patients and their diseases.»
Author: William Osler
(Physician)
| Keywords:
cloister, cloistered, diseases, How To Deal, medical, medical school, patients, professional life, professor, pupils, school of medicine, warding, wards
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