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Letter "E" » explosives
«If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.»
Author: Emile Zola
(Activist, Critic, Novelist)
| Keywords:
blow up, bursts, bury, burying ground, explosive, explosives, gather, shut up
«Ideas came with explosive immediacy, like an instant birth. Human thought is like a monstrous pendulum; it keeps swinging from one extreme to the other.»
Author: Eugene Field
| About:
Ideas,
Thought
| Keywords:
explosive, explosives, extreme, Human thought, immediacy, instant, monstrous, swinging
«Desire, like the atom, is explosive with creative force.»
«I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we're from, everyone loves music.»
Author: Billy Joel
(Pianist, Singer, Song Writer)
| About:
Music
| Keywords:
culture, explosive, explosives, expression, healing, it An, no touch, Their culture, touched
«I think it's funny to be delicate with subjects that are explosive.»
«Anger and hatred cannot bring harmony. The noble task of arms control and disarmament cannot be accomplished by confrontation and condemnation. Hostile attitudes only serve to heat up the situation, whereas a true sense of respect gradually cools down what otherwise could become explosive. We must recognize the frequent contradictions between short-term benefit and long-term harm.»
Author: Dalai Lama
| Keywords:
accomplished, arms, arms control, condemnation, confrontation, confrontations, contradictions, contradiction in terms, cools, cool down, disarmament, explosive, explosives, frequent, frequented, frequenting, frequents, gradually, harm, harmony, heat, heat up, hostile, noble, otherwise, recognize, short-term, situation, term
«High explosives and school don't mix»
«Emotional occasions, especially violent ones, are extremely potent in precipitating mental rearrangements. The sudden and explosive ways in which love, jealousy, guilt, fear, remorse, or anger can seize upon one are known to everybody. . . . And emotions that come in this explosive way seldom leave things as they found them.»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| Keywords:
come in, emotional, explosive, explosives, extremely, guilt, jealousy, occasions, potent, precipitate, precipitated, precipitates, precipitating, remorse, seize, sudden, Sudden Fear, violent
«Although personally I am quite content with existing explosives, I feel we must not stand in the path of improvement.»
«Atomic energy might be as good as our present day explosives, but is unlikely to produce anything very much more dangerous»
Author: Winston Churchill
(Author, Orator, Prime Minister)
| Keywords:
atomic, atomic energy, explosives
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