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«It is often easier to become outraged by injustice half a world away than by oppression and discrimination half a block from home.»
Author: Carl T. Rowan
(Journalist)
| Keywords:
block, blocked, blocking, block out, discrimination, injustice, oppression, outraged, outrages, to become
«I was either standing in your shadow, or blocking your light; Though I kept on trying I could not get it right; For you, girl There's just not enough love in the world»
Author: Don Henley
(Singer, Song Writer)
| Keywords:
blocked, blocking, block out, get it, kept, shadow, standing
«There is no worse screen to block out the Spirit than confidence in our own intelligence»
Author: John Calvin
(Statesman, Theologian)
| About:
Confidence,
Intelligence
| Keywords:
block, block out, screen, screened, screening, screens, screen out
«Of course I lie to people. But I lie altruistically - for our mutual good. The lie is the basic building block of good manners. That may seem mildly shocking to a moralist - but then what isn't?»
Author: Quentin Crisp
(Author)
| About:
Lies
| Keywords:
altruistically, basic, block, blocking, block out, building, building block, but then, good manners, manners, mildly, moralist, mutual, of course, shocking
«I've never tried to block out the memories of the past, even though some are painful. I don't understand people who hide from their past. Everything you live through helps to make you the person you are now.»
«Only he who can view his own past as an abortion sprung from compulsion and need can use it to full advantage in the present. For what one has lived is at best comparable to a beautiful statue which has had all its limbs knocked off in transit, and now yields nothing but the precious block out of which the image of one's future must be hewn.»
Author: Walter Benjamin
(Essayist, Theologian, Writer)
| Keywords:
abortion, at best, block out, comparable, compulsion, hewing, hewn, in full view, knocked, limbs, sprung, transit, yields
«A closed mind is like a closed book; just a block of wood»
Author: Chinese Proverbs
| About:
Mind
| Keywords:
block, blocked, blocking, block out, closed, closed book, Just a, wood
«My theory on housework is, if the item doesn't multiply, smell, catch fire, or block the refrigerator door, let it be. No one else cares. Why should you?»
Author: Erma Bombeck
| Keywords:
block, blocked, blocking, block out, cares, catch, catch fire, door, fire, housework, item, Let It Be, multiplied by, multiplies, multiply, multiplying, refrigerator, refrigerators, smell, smelled, smelt, theory
«Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends up blocking his retreat.»
«Some people try to find things in this game that don't exist but football is only two things-blocking and tackling.»
Author: Vince Lombardi
(Coach)
| Keywords:
blocked, blocking, block out, football, football game, Football games, game, tackle, tackled, tackles, tackling, the Football
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