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«Nations, like plants and human beings, grow. And if the development is thwarted they are dwarfed and overshadowed.»
Author: Claude McKay
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«The human spirit sublimates the impulses it thwarts; a healthy sex life mitigates the lust for other sports»
«Take care; you know I am compliance itself, when I am not thwarted! No one more easily led, when I have my own way; but don't put me in a frenzy.»
Author: Richard Brinsley Sheridan
(Orator, Playwright, Politician)
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compliance, frenzy, thwart, thwarted, thwarting, thwarts
«The people are the best guardians of their own rights and it is the duty of their executive to abstain from interfering in or thwarting the sacred exercise of the lawmaking functions of their government.»
Author: William Henry Harrison
(President)
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«The popularity of disaster movies expresses a collective perception of a world threatened by irresistible and unforeseen forces which nevertheless are thwarted at the last moment. Their thinly veiled symbolic meaning might be translated thus: We are innocent of wrongdoing. We are attacked by unforeseeable forces come to harm us. We are, thus, innocent even of negligence. Though those forces are insuperable, chance will come to our aid and we shall emerge victorious.»
Author: David Mamet
(Playwright)
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«Instinct must be thwarted just as one prunes the branches of a tree so that it will grow better.»
«It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.»
«The mechanism that directs government cannot be virtuous, because it is impossible to thwart every crime, to protect oneself from every criminal without being criminal too; that which directs corrupt mankind must be corrupt itself; and it will never be by means of virtue, virtue being inert and passive, that you will maintain control over vice, which is ever active: the governor must be more energetic than the governed.»
«For the current of our spiritual life creeds, rituals and channels that may thwart or help, according to their fixity or openness. When a symbol or spiritual idea becomes rigidly elaborate in its construction, it supplants the idea which it should support.»
Author: Rabindranath Tagore
(Essayist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
channels, construction, creeds, fixity, openness, rigidly, rituals, spiritual life, supplant, supplanted, supplanting, supplants, The Current, thwart, thwarting
«In the Communist world, we see failure, technological backwardness, declining standards of health, even want of the most basic kind -- too little food. Even today, the Soviet Union still cannot feed itself. . . . East and West do not distrust each other because we are armed; we are armed because we distrust each other. And our differences are not about weapons but about liberty. . . . The most fundamental distinction of all between East and West (sic.) [is that] the totalitarian world produces backwardness because it does such violence to the spirit, thwarting the human impulse to create, to enjoy, to worship. The totalitarian world finds even symbols of love and of worship an affront.»
Author: Ronald Reagan
(President)
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