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«Learning gives us a fuller conviction of the imperfections of our nature; which one would think, might dispose us to modesty»
Author: Jeremy Collier
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Learning
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dispose, disposes, dispose of, disposing, fuller, fullers, imperfections, modesty
«Religion I have disposed of all my property to my family. There is one thing more I wish I could give to them, and that is the Christian religion. If they had that and I had not given them one cent, they would be rich. If they have not that, and I had given them the world, they would be poor.»
Author: Patrick Henry
(Lawyer)
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cent, Christian religion, disposed, disposes, dispose of, disposing, My Family, The Christian
«Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world.»
Author: Blaise Pascal
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist)
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Imagination
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creates, disposes, dispose of, disposing, In this World, justice
«At the center of our being is a point of nothingness which is untouched by sin and by illusion, a point of pure truth, a point or spark which belongs entirely to God, which is never at our disposal, from which God disposes of our lives, which is inaccessible to the fantasies of our own mind or the brutalities of our own will.»
Author: Thomas Merton
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belongs, brutalities, center, disposal, disposes, dispose of, disposing, entirely, fantasies, inaccessible, nothingness, of our own, Point of, spark, The Center, untouched
«The lot is cast into the lap; but the whole disposing thereof is of the LORD.»
«It is the duty of the President to propose and it is the privilege of the Congress to dispose»
Author: Franklin D. Roosevelt
(President)
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congress, dispose, disposes, dispose of, disposing, privilege, propose, proposing, The Congress, the President
«The formula of the argument is simple and familiar: to dispose of a problem all that is necessary is to deny that it exists»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
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Arguments
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argument, deny, dispose, disposes, dispose of, disposing, familiar, formula, The Argument, The Formula
«Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies, is sure of being kindly spoken of.»
Author: Jane Austen
(Novelist, Writer)
| About:
Death and dying,
Mankind
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disposed, disposes, dispose of, disposing, kindly, married person, marries, situations, well-disposed, young person
«Comparatively few people know what a million dollars actually is. To the majority it is a gaseous concept, swelling or decreasing as the occasion suggests. In the minds of politicians, perhaps more than anywhere, the notion of a million dollars has this accordion-like ability to expand or contract; if they are disposing of it, the million is a pleasing sum, reflecting warmly upon themselves; if somebody else wants it, it becomes a figure of inordinate size, not to be compassed by the rational mind.»
Author: Robertson Davies
(Author, Journalist)
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accordion, compassed, contract, decreasing, disposing, gaseous, inordinate, suggests, warmly
«Make no mistake, abortion-on-demand is not a right guaranteed by the Constitution. No serious scholar, including one disposed to agree with the Court's result, has argued that the framers of the Constitution intended to create such a right.»
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