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«Men are made uneasy; they flinch; they cannot bear the sudden light; a general restlessness supervenes; the face of society is disturbed, or perhaps convulsed; old interests and old beliefs have been destroyed before new ones have been created. These symptoms are the precursors of revolution; they have preceded all the great changes through which the world has passed.»
Author: Henry Thomas Buckle
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disturbed, flinch, flinching, general interest, preceded, precursor, precursors, uneasy
«It having been a very cold night last night I had got some cold, and so in pain by wind, and a sure precursor of pain is sudden letting off farts, and when that stops, then my passages stop and my pain begins»
Author: Samuel Pepys
(Administrator)
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Pain
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fart, farts, passages, precursor, precursors
«An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing.»
Author: Samuel Smiles
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anticipation, intense, performing, precursor, precursors, transforms
«Every writer ''creates'' his own precursors. His work modifies our conception of the past, as it will modify the future.»
Author: Jorge Luis Borges
(Essayist, Poet)
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conception, modifies, modify, precursor, precursors
«What is the imagination? Only an arm or weapon of the interior energy; only the precursor of the reason.»
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