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«When principles that run against your deepest convictions begin to win the day, then battle is your calling, and peace has become sin; you must, at the price of dearest peace, lay your convictions bare before friend and enemy, with all the fire of your faith.»
Author: Abraham Kuyper
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Journalist,
Prime Minister,
Statesman,
Theologian)
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Keywords:
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bared,
barer,
bares,
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battle,
convictions,
dearest,
deepest,
lay,
price,
principles,
sin,
the fire
«When chill November's surly blast make fields and forest bare.»
«We have long forgotten the ritual by which the house of our life was erected. But when it is under assault and enemy bombs are already taking their toll, what enervated, perverse antiquities do they not lay bare in the foundations.»
Author: Walter Benjamin
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Essayist,
Theologian,
Writer)
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Keywords:
antiquities,
assault,
bare,
bombs,
enervated,
enervating,
erected,
foundations,
perverse,
ritual,
The Foundations,
toll,
tolls
«Therefore all seasons shall be sweet to thee,/ Whether the summer clothe the general earth/ With greenness, or the redbreast sit and sing / Betwixt the tufts of snow on the bare branch / Of mossy apple tree.»
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Critic,
Philosopher,
Poet)
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Keywords:
apple tree,
bare,
betwixt,
branch,
clothe,
greenness,
mossy,
redbreast,
seasons,
summer sweet,
tuft,
tufts
«The proximity of an army causes prices to go up; and high prices cause people's substance to be drained away. When their substance is drained away, they will be afflicted by heavy exactions. With this loss of substance and exhaustion of strength, the homes of the people will be stripped bare, and their incomes dissipated.»
Author: Sun Tzu
(
Author,
General)
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About:
Army
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Keywords:
afflicted,
bare,
dissipate,
dissipated,
dissipates,
dissipating,
drained,
go up,
high-priced,
homes,
incomes,
prices,
proximity,
stripped
«The abilities of man must fall short on one side or the other, like too scanty a blanket when you are abed. If you pull it upon your shoulders, your feet are left bare; if you thrust it down to your feet, your shoulders are uncovered.»
Author: Thomas Paine
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Writer)
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About:
Ability
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Keywords:
abed,
abilities,
bare,
blanket,
blanketed,
blankets,
fall short,
scantiest,
scanty,
shoulders,
thrust,
uncovered,
uncovering,
uncovers
«Thanks for the American dream, to vulgarize and falsify until the bare lies shine through. Thanks for a country where nobody's allowed to mind their own business.»
«The sauce to meat is ceremony; Meeting were bare without it»
«This city now doth, like a garment, wear the beauty of the morning; silent bare, ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie open unto the fields and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.»
Author: William Wordsworth
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Poet)
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Keywords:
air,
bare,
bared,
barer,
bares,
barest,
baring,
bright,
city,
domes,
Fields,
garment,
glittered,
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open air,
open field,
ships,
sky,
smokeless,
temples,
Towered,
towers,
wear
«We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty»