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«Jerusalem is a festival and a lamentation. Its song is a sigh across the ages, a delicate, robust, mournful psalm at the great junction of spiritual cultures.»
Author: David K Shipler
| About:
Judaism
| Keywords:
cultures, festival, festivals, Jerusalem, junction, lamentation, Lamentations, mournful, psalm, robust, sigh
«He brings a gust of acrid provincial air to the ancient office. He is an angry young prophet rather than a smooth courtier. His verse is angular, savage, robust and very good.»
«Did you ever see the customers in health-food stores? They are pale, skinny people who look half dead. In a steak house, you see robust, ruddy people. They're dying, of course, but they look terrific.»
«Business, labor and civil society organizations have skills and resources that are vital in helping to build a more robust global community.»
Author: Kofi Annan
| About:
Business,
Society
| Keywords:
business community, Civil society, global, organizations, robust, skills
«Standing armies can never consist of resolute robust men; they may be well-disciplined machines, but they will seldom contain men under the influence of strong passions, or with very vigorous faculties.»
«DAWN, n. The time when men of reason go to bed. Certain old men prefer to rise at about that time, taking a cold bath and a long walk with an empty stomach, and otherwise mortifying the flesh. They then point with pride to these practices as the cause of their sturdy health and ripe years; the truth being that they are hearty and old, not because of their habits, but in spite of them. The reason we find only robust persons doing this thing is that it has killed all the others who have tried it.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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bath, go to bed, hearty, Long Walk, mortified, mortifies, mortify, mortifying, practices, ripe, robust, sturdy, with pride
«He ate and drank the precious Words, his Spirit grew robust; He knew no more that he was poor, nor that his frame was Dust.»
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