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Letter "S" » senseless
«This is a formidable enemy. To dismiss it as a bunch of 'cowards' perpetuating 'senseless acts of violence' is complacent nonsense. People willing to kill thousands of innocents while they kill themselves are not cowards. They are deadly vicious warriors and need to be treated as such.»
Author: Charles Krauthammer
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«Religions sprang up among men to deal with the sometimes terrifying aspects of existence, to make sense out of the senseless, to explain things we find inexplicable»
Author: Gore Vidal
| About:
Religion
| Keywords:
aspects, explain, inexplicable, make sense, religions, senseless, sprang, terrifying
«Any alliance whose purpose is not the intention to wage war is senseless and useless.»
«God will not suffer man to have a knowledge of things to come; for if he had prescience of his prosperity, he would be careless; and if understanding of his adversity, he would be despairing and senseless»
Author: Saint Augustine
(Bishop, Theologian)
| About:
God
| Keywords:
adversity, careless, Despaired, despairing, despairs, prescience, prosperity, senseless, suffer, Things to Come, understanding
«Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the world.»
Author: William Penn
(Founder)
| About:
Reading
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«Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -how passionately I hate them!»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| About:
Heroism,
Patriotism,
War
| Keywords:
command, heroism, loathsome, nonsense, passionately, patriotism, senseless, The name
«Now just behold these miserable, blind, and senseless people»
«You are thought here to be the most senseless and fit man for the constable of the watch, therefore bear you the lantern.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
constable, constables, fit, lantern, lanterns, senseless
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