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«I don't think that the flesh is necessarily treacherous, evil, bad. It is cantankerous, and it is independent. The idea of independence is the key. It really is like colonialism. The colonies suddenly decide that they can and should exist with their own personality and should detach from the control of the mother country. At first the colony is perceived as being treacherous. It's a betrayal. Ultimately, it can be seen as the separation of a partner that could be very valuable as an equal rather than as something you dominate.»
Author: David Cronenberg
| Keywords:
betrayal, betrayals, cantankerous, colonialism, colonies, colony, detach, dominate, mother country, partner, perceived, separation, the colonies, The First Evil, treacherous
«America owes most of its social prejudices to the exaggerated religious opinions of the different sects which were so instrumental in establishing the colonies.»
Author: James F. Cooper
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colonies, colony, Establishing, exaggerated, instrumental, owes, religious sect, sects, the colonies
«In the dark colony of night, when I consider man's magnificent capacity for malice, madness, folly, envy, rage, and destructiveness, and I wonder whether we shall not end up as breakfast for newts and polyps, I seem to hear the muffled cries of all the words in all the books with covers closed.»
Author: Leo Rosten
(Novelist)
| Keywords:
colony, covers, cries, destructiveness, magnificent, malice, muffle, muffled, muffling, newt, newts, the books, the colonies
«The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison.»
Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
(Novelist, Writer)
| Keywords:
allot, allots, cemetery, colony, earliest, founders, invariably, necessities, originally, project, site, sites, the colonies, The Founders, The Virgin, Utopia, Virgin
«All the sparrows on the rooftops are crying about the fact that the most imperialist nation that is supporting the colonial regime in the colonies is the United States of America.»
Author: Nikita Khrushchev
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colonial, colonies, colony, imperialist, regime, Sparrows, supporting, the colonies, The United States of America, United States of America
«Therefore loosing from Troas, we came with a straight course to Samothracia, and the next day to Neapolis; / And from thence to Philippi, which is the chief city of that part of Macedonia, and a colony: and we were in that city abiding certain days.»
Author: Bible
| Keywords:
abiding, colony, loosing, Macedonia, Philippi, thence, the colonies, the next day, Troas
«Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result of being that they get on each other's nerves and regularly erupt into vicious emotional shouting.»
Author: Dave Barry
(Humorist, Writer)
| About:
Marriage
| Keywords:
colonies, colony, couples, erupt, erupting, erupts, flaw, get on, in practice, married couple, nerves, regularly, teeming, teeming with, teems, the colonies, vicious
«I cannot forbear to wish, that this commotion (in the colonies) may end without bloodshed, and that the rebels may be subdued by terror rather than by violence; and, therefore, recommend such a force as may take away, not only the power, but the hope»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
colony, commotion, forbear, forbearing, rebels, recommend, the colonies, the Rebels, without bloodshed
«I was just thinking, if it is really religion with these nudist colonies, they sure must turn atheists in the wintertime.»
«I feel that this life is sort of a penal colony. People have goofed or we wouldn't be here.»
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