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Letter "T" » the West
«It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.»
Author: Alexander Solzhenitsyn
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defend, human right, Human rights, obligations, rights, the West, West
«Ensanguining the skies, How heavily it dies, Into the west away; Past touch and sight and sound, Not further to be found, How hopeless under ground, Falls the remorseful day»
Author: Alfred Edward Housman
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heavily, hopeless, remorseful, Sight and Sound, skies, the West, West
«God has been replaced, as he has all over the West, with respectability and air conditioning.»
Author: Imamu Amiri Baraka
(Writer)
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air-conditioned, Air conditioning, has been replaced, replaced, the West
«For us in Russia communism is a dead dog. For many people in the West, it is still a living lion.»
«I've always liked it here. Part of me is Irish. . . . My family comes from the west coast, so whenever I come to Ireland I get a wee tingling in my heart that I'm where I belong.»
«I was raised in the West. The West of texas. It's pretty close to California. In more ways than Washington, D.C., is close to California.»
Author: George Bush
(President)
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Funny
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California, raised, Texas, the West, Washington, West
«HURRICANE, n. An atmospheric demonstration once very common but now generally abandoned for the tornado and cyclone. The hurricane is still in popular use in the West Indies and is preferred by certain old-fashioned sea-captains. It is also used in the construction of the upper decks of steamboats, but generally speaking, the hurricane's usefulness has outlasted it.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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abandoned, atmospheric, captains, construction, cyclone, decked, decks, demonstration, demonstrations, fashioned, hurricane, hurricanes, Indies, old fashioned, outlast, outlasted, outlasting, outlasts, preferred, sea captain, steamboat, steamboats, The Hurricane, the Indies, the West, tornado, tornadoes, upper, uppers, upper deck, usefulness, West Indies
«In fact, just about all the major natural attractions you find in the West- the Grand Canyon, the Badlands, the Goodlands, the Mediocrelands, the Rocky Mountains and Robert Redford- were caused by erosion.»
Author: Dave Barry
(Humorist, Writer)
| About:
Nature
| Keywords:
attractions, Badlands, canyon, canyons, erosion, Grand Canyon, just about, natural causes, Redford, Robert, Robert A, Robert Redford, rocky, Rocky Mountains, The Rocky, the West
«God forbid that India should ever take to industrialism after the manner of the west... keeping the world in chains. If [our nation] took to similar economic exploitation, it would strip the world bare like locusts.»
Author: Mahatma Gandhi
(Philosopher)
| About:
God
| Keywords:
bare, chains, economic, exploitation, forbid, India, industrialism, in chains, keeping, manner, similar, strip, take to, the West, took, West
«Do business best when the wind's in the west»
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