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«The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.»
«Your hair may be brushed, but your mind's untidy. You've had about seven hours of sleep since Friday. No wonder you feel that lost sensation. You're sunk from a riot of relaxation.»
Author: Ogden Nash
(Writer)
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brushed, Friday, Fridays, relaxation, riot, riots, sensation, Seven Wonders, sinking feeling, sunk, untidy
«The NAACP should have riot rehearsals»
«Who ever hears of fat men heading a riot, or herding together in turbulent mobs? No -- no, your lean, hungry men who are continually worrying society, and setting the whole community by the ears.»
«RIOT, n. A popular entertainment given to the military by innocent bystanders.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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bystander, bystanders, Popular entertainment, riot
«RETRIBUTION, n. A rain of fire-and-brimstone that falls alike upon the just and such of the unjust as have not procured shelter by evicting them. In the lines following, addressed to an Emperor in exile by Father Gassalasca Jape, the reverend poet appears to hint his sense of the improduence of turning about to face Retribution when it is talking exercise:What, what! Dom Pedro, you desire to go Back to Brazil to end your days in quiet? Why, what assurance have you 'twould be so?'Tis not so long since you were in a riot, And your dear subjects showed a will to fly at Your throat and shake you like a rat. You know That empires are ungrateful; are you certain Republics are less handy to get hurt in?»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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«The brazen throat of war had ceased to roar, / All now was turned to jollity and game,/ To luxury and riot, feast and dance.»
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