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«After all, it [the Internet] was designed to withstand nuclear war, not just the puny huffs and puffs of politicians and religious fanatics.»
Author: Denise Caruso
| About:
Internet,
Politicians
| Keywords:
designed, fanatics, huff, huffing, huffs, nuclear, nuclear war, puffed, puffing, puffs, puny, religious war, The Internet, withstand
«If he loved with all the powers of his puny being, he couldn't love as much in eighty years as I could in a day. and Catherine has a heart as deep as I have: the sea could be as readily contained in that horse-trough as her whole affection be monopolised by him.»
«Religion closes off the central questions of existence by attempting to dissuade us from further enquiry by asserting that we cannot ever hope to comprehend. We are, religion asserts, simply too puny.»
Author: Peter William Atkins
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asserting, asserts, attempting, central, closes, comprehend, dissuade, dissuaded, dissuading, enquiry, puny, The central
«Cocoa? Cocoa! Damn miserable puny stuff, fit for kittens and unwashed boys. Did Shakespeare drink cocoa?»
«The outward work will never be puny if the inward work is great.»
«In the morning I bathe my intellect in the stupendous and cosmogonal philosophy of the Bhagavad Gita in comparison with which our modern world and its literature seems puny»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
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Literature
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bathe, Bhagavad Gita, comparison, Gita, modern philosophy, modern world, Philosophy of, puny
«We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
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avarice, diseases, fickle, folk, hesitation, puny
«If I were punished for every pun I shed, there would not be left a puny shed of my punnish head»
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