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«Not only the studying and writing of history but also the honoring of it both represent affirmations of a certain defiant faith - a desperate, unreasoning faith, if you will-but faith nevertheless in the endurance of this threatened world-faith in the total essentiality of historical continuity.»
Author: George F. Kennan
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affirmations, continuity, defiant, essentiality, honoring, threatened, unreasoning
«My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.»
«I would lay down my life to defend any one of the States from aggression, which endangered peace or threatened its institutions. I could do more for the union, but I wish to do more; for the destruction of the union would be the destruction of all the States. A stab in the heart is worse then a cut in a limb, for this may be healed.»
Author: Sam Houston
(General, Lawyer, Politician)
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Patriotism
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aggression, aggressions, defend, destruction, endanger, endangered, endangers, institutions, lay, lay down, the union, threatened, union
«The popularity of disaster movies expresses a collective perception of a world threatened by irresistible and unforeseen forces which nevertheless are thwarted at the last moment. Their thinly veiled symbolic meaning might be translated thus: We are innocent of wrongdoing. We are attacked by unforeseeable forces come to harm us. We are, thus, innocent even of negligence. Though those forces are insuperable, chance will come to our aid and we shall emerge victorious.»
Author: David Mamet
(Playwright)
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collective, emerge, expresses, innocent of, insuperable, irresistible, Irresistible Force, negligence, nevertheless, popularity, symbolic, thinly, threatened, thwart, thwarted, thwarting, thwarts, translated, unforeseeable, unforeseen, veiled, victorious, wrongdoing, wrongdoings
«The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions.»
Author: James Arthur Baldwin
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
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Black man, definitions, refuses, The White, threatened, white
«I have always paid income tax. I object only when it reaches a stage when I am threatened with having nothing left for my old age - which is due to start next Tuesday or Wednesday.»
«The most threatened group in human societies as in animal societies is the unmated male: the unmated male is more likely to wind up in prison or in an asylum or dead than his mated counterpart. He is less likely to be promoted at work and he is considered a poor credit risk.»
«In today's climate in our country, which is sickened with the pollution of pollution, threatened with the prominence of AIDS, riddled with burgeoning racism, rife with growing huddles of the homeless, we need art and we need art in all forms. We need all methods of art to be present, everywhere present, and all the time present.»
«The very minute a thought is threatened with publicity it seems to shrink towards mediocrity»
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
(Humorist, Physician, Poet, Professor, Writer)
| About:
Advertising
| Keywords:
publicity, shrink, threatened
«One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!»
Author: Winston Churchill
(Author, Orator, Prime Minister)
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