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«He sees death in convicted thieves, the burglars, the muggers, the con men, the pimps, a death imposed by law, the gradual death of confinement behind bars.»
«Since the general civilization of mankind, I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpation»
Author: James Madison
(President)
| About:
Civilization,
Freedom,
Mankind
| Keywords:
abridgment, abridgments, encroachment, encroachments, gradual, instances, sudden, The General, usurpation, violent
«I began to have an idea of my life, not as slow shaping of achievement to fit my preconceived purposes, but as the gradual discovery and growth of a purpose which I did not know»
Author: Joanna Field
| About:
Ideas
| Keywords:
began, discovery, fit, gradual, preconceived, purposes, shaping, slow
«Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better.»
«However gradual the course of history, there must always be the day, even an hour and minute, when some significant action is performed for the first or last time»
Author: Peter Quennell
| Keywords:
gradual
«It is to the credit of human nature, that, except where its selfishness is brought into play, it loves more readily than it hates. Hatred, by a gradual and quiet process, will even be transformed to love, unless the change be impeded by a continually new irritation of the original feeling of hostility. from The Scarlet Letter»
Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
(Novelist, Writer)
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continually, gradual, hostility, human process, impede, impeded, impedes, impeding, irritation, irritations, readily, scarlet, Scarlet Letter, selfishness, The Scarlet Letter, transformed
«However gradual may be the growth of confidence, that of credit requires still more time to arrive at maturity»
«I have no doubt that it is a part of the destiny of the human race, in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals, as surely as the savage tribes have left off eating each other when they came in contact with the more civilized.»
«It is pleasant to see great works in their seminal state pregnant with latent possibilities of excellence; nor could there be any more delightful entertainment than to trace their gradual growth and expansion, and to observe how they sometimes sudde»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
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delightful, entertainment, expansion, gradual, latent, pregnant, seminal, trace
«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»
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