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Letter "F" » Father Time
«Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism»
Author: Barry Goldwater
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Politician,
Senator)
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About:
Equality,
Liberty
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Keywords:
conformity,
despotism,
differences,
emancipation,
equality,
fathers,
Father Time,
First to,
founding,
Founding Fathers,
In Our Time,
rightly,
tragically,
wrongly
«By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong.»
«It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived.»
«Every girl should use what Mother Nature gave her before Father Time takes it away.»
«At least the Pilgrim Fathers used to shoot Indians: the Pilgrim Children merely punch time clocks.»
Author: E. E. Cummings
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Keywords:
fathers,
Father Time,
Indians,
pilgrim,
Pilgrim Fathers,
punch,
punched,
punches,
punching,
punch in,
shoot
«I remember the time I was kidnapped and they sent a piece of my finger to my father. He said he wanted more proof.»
«Come, come, leave business to idlers, and wisdom to fools: they have need of 'em: wit be my faculty, and pleasure my occupation, and let father Time shake his glass.»
«Father Time is not always a hard parent, and, though he tarries for none of his children, often lays his hand lightly upon those who have used him well; making them old men and women inexorably enough, but leaving their hearts and spirits young and in full vigor. With such people the gray head is but the impression of the old fellow's hand in giving them his blessing, and every wrinkle but a notch in the quiet calendar of a well-spent life.»
Author: Charles Dickens
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Keywords:
calendar,
calendars,
Father Time,
gray-headed,
gray,
impression,
inexorably,
in full,
laying on of hands,
lays,
leaving,
lightly,
notch,
tarries,
tarrying,
The Quiet,
vigor,
wrinkle
«May the Father of All Mercies scatter light, and not darkness, upon our paths; and, make us in all our several vocations useful here, and in His own due time and way everlastingly happy»
Author: George Washington
(
President)
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Keywords:
due,
everlastingly,
Father of,
Father Time,
in due time,
mercies,
not due,
paths,
scatter,
scattering,
several,
The Father,
vocations
«I could just remember how my father used to say that the reason for living was to get ready to stay dead a long time.»