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«If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning.»
Author: Frederick Douglass
(Abolitionist, Author, Lecturer, Slave)
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«It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.»
Author: Frederick Douglass
(Abolitionist, Author, Lecturer, Slave)
| About:
Needs
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earthquake, earthquakes, like thunder, shower, storm, The Whirlwind, thunder, thundered, thundering, whirlwind, whirlwinds
«Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does all the work»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
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«When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and yelled up to the heavens, 'Why god? Why me?' and the thundering voice of God answered, 'There's just something about you that pisses me off»
«The muffled thunder of dialogue comes through the walls, then a chorus of laughter. Then more thunder. Most of the laugh tracks on television were recorded in the early 1950s. These days, most of the people you hear laughing are dead.»
Author: Chuck Palahniuk
(Journalist, Novelist, Satirist)
| About:
Laughter
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«We can never have enough of nature. We must be refreshed by the sight of inexhaustible vigor, vast and titanic features, the sea-coast with its wrecks, the wilderness with its living and its decaying trees, the thunder-cloud, and the rain.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
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cloud, coast, coasting, Coast to Coast, decaying, features, inexhaustible, like thunder, rain cloud, refreshed, refreshes, refreshing, sea-coast, The Sea, the Wilderness, the Wrecks, thunder, thundered, thundering, titanic, vast, vigor, wilderness, wildernesses, wrecking, wrecks
«I roamed the countryside searching for answers to things I did not understand. Why thunder lasts longer than that which causes it, and why immediately on its creation the lightning becomes visible to the eye while thunder requires time to travel. How»
Author: Leonardo da Vinci
(Architect, Engineer, Painter, Sculptor)
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«Don't say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
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Contraries, contrary, Hear say, like thunder, stands, thundered, thundering, thunders, to the contrary
«On the road to Mandalay, / Where the flyin'-fishes play, / An' the dawn comes up like thunder outer China 'crost the Bay!»
Author: Rudyard Kipling
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«Life is the fire that burns and the sun that gives light. Life is the wind and the rain and the thunder in the sky. Life is matter and is earth, what is and what is not, and what beyond is in Eternity.»
Author: Seneca
| About:
Life
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Burns, like thunder, the fire, The Wind, thunder, thundered, thundering
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