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Letter "B" » baser
«Half the worry in the world is caused by people trying to make decisions before they have sufficient knowledge on which to base a decision.»
«I never saw any of man's baser acts of inhumanity to man. I never saw screaming 'witches' burned at the stake, Christians tossed to starving lions, maidens pushed over the edge of active volcanoes. I never even saw a man going to the electric chair. But until I do, watching Ben Hogan walk up to a five-foot putt is my idea of cruel and inhuman punishment, only a Hitler would enjoy. You feel like saying 'Go home to your wife and kiddies and don't look upon this terrible thing!'»
Author: Jim Murray
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Writer)
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Ben Hogan,
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Hitler,
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Maidens,
Over the Edge,
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tossed,
volcanoes,
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«Go far - too far you cannot, still the farther The more experience finds you: and go sparing - One meal a week will serve you, and one suit, Through all your travels; for you'll find it certain The poorer and the baser you appear, The more you look t»
«If each man or woman could understand that every other human life is as full of sorrows, or joys, or base temptations, of heartaches and of remorse as his own . . . how much kinder, how much gentler he would be.»
Author: William Allen White
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Journalist)
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About:
Humanity,
Life
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Keywords:
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Basing,
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The Temptations,
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«I have but shadowed forth my intense longing to lose myself in the Eternal and become merely a lump of clay in the Potter's divine hands so that my service may become more certain because uninterrupted by the baser self in me.»
Author: Mohandas Gandhi
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Keywords:
baser,
clay,
divine service,
intense,
In Me,
longing,
lump,
lumped,
lumps,
potter,
potters,
shadowed,
The Eternal,
uninterrupted
«A writer must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid.»
«But the Jews which believed not, moved with envy, took unto them certain lewd fellows of the baser sort, and gathered a company, and set all the city on an uproar, and assaulted the house of Jason, and sought to bring them out to the people.»
«Oh, Thou, who Man of baser Earth didst make, / And who with Eden didst devise the Snake; / For all the Sin wherewith the Face of Man / Is blackened. Man's Forgiveness give - and take!»
«Constancy... that small change of love, which people exact so rigidly, receive in such counterfeit coin, and repay in baser metal.»
«Always be ready to speak your mind and a base man will avoid you.»