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«St. Patrick... one of the few saints whose feast day presents the opportunity to get determinedly whacked and make a fool of oneself all under the guise of acting Irish.»
Author: Charles M. Madigan
| Keywords:
acting, All Saints, AT ST, determinedly, feast, feasted, feast day, feast days, guise, Irish, Patrick, presents, saints, Saint Patrick, St Patrick, whack, whacked, whacking, whacks
«During times of war, hatred becomes quite respectable, even though it has to masquerade often under the guise of patriotism.»
Author: Howard Thurman
(Activist, Clergyman, Theologian)
| Keywords:
guise, masquerade, masquerades, masquerading, patriotism, respectable
«If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy»
Author: James Madison
(President)
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Tyranny
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fighting, foreign, guise, land, oppression, tyranny
«I trust it will not be giving away professional secrets to say that many readers would be surprised, perhaps shocked, at the questions which some newspaper editors will put to a defenseless woman under the guise of flattery.»
Author: Kate Chopin
(Author, Novelist, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
defenseless, editors, flattery, guise, newspaper, professional, readers, secrets, shocked, surprised
«Religious persecution may shield itself under the guise of a mistaken and over-zealous piety.»
Author: Edmund Burke
(Philosopher, Statesman)
| Keywords:
guise, mistaken, persecution, piety, religious persecution, shield, zealous
«A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.»
Author: Honore de Balzac
(Novelist)
| Keywords:
beacon, beacons, fond, guise, lighting-up, lighting, reflected
«There is something else which has the power to awaken us to the truth. It is the works of writers of genius. They give us, in the guise of fiction, something equivalent to the actual density of the real, that density which life offers us every day but which we are unable to grasp because we are amusing ourselves with lies.»
Author: Simone Weil
(Activist, Mystic, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
actual, amuses, amusing, awaken, density, equivalent, fiction, fiction writer, grasp, guise, offers, Real Genius, something else, The Works, unable, writers
«Whenever a taboo is broken, something good happens, something vitalizing. Taboos after all are only hangovers, the product of diseased minds, you might say, of fearsome people who hadn't the courage to live and who under the guise of morality and religion have imposed these things upon us.»
Author: Henry Miller
(Author, Writer)
| Keywords:
diseased, fearsome, guise, hangovers, happen upon, imposed, morality, taboo, taboos, vitalize, vitalizes, vitalizing
«There is nothing strange about fear: no matter in what guise it presents itself it is something with which we are all so familiar that when a man appears who is without it we are at once enslaved by him.»
Author: Henry Miller
(Author, Writer)
| Keywords:
appears, enslaved, familiar, guise, Nothing So Strange, presents
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