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Letter "F" » flood
«The biblical account of Noah's Ark and the Flood is perhaps the most implausible story for fundamentalists to defend. Where, for example, while loading his ark, did Noah find penguins and polar bears in Palestine?»
Author: Judith Hayes
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Keywords:
ark,
bears,
biblical,
flood,
for example,
fundamentalist,
Fundamentalists,
implausible,
loading,
Noah,
Palestine,
polar,
The Flood
«The flood of money that gushes into politics today is a pollution of democracy.»
«There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.»
Author: William Shakespeare
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Dramatist,
Playwright,
Poet)
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Keywords:
affairs,
afloat,
bound,
clouds,
current,
flood,
flood tide,
folded,
folding,
fold up,
man of affairs,
miseries,
omit,
omits,
omitted,
omitting,
shallows,
The Clouds,
The Current,
The Flood,
tide,
voyage
«There?s a huge hole in the whole Flood drama, because anything that could float or swim got away scot-free, and it was the idea to wipe out everything, He didn?t say, ?I will kill everything, except the floating ones and the swimming ones, who will get out due to a loophole.?»
Author: Eddie Izzard
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Actor,
Comedian)
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Keywords:
drama,
dramas,
due to,
float,
floating,
flood,
hole,
huge,
Scot,
Scots,
scot free,
swim,
swimming,
wipe,
wiped out,
wipes,
wipe away,
wipe out,
wiping
«Slander cannot destroy an honest man - when the flood recedes the rock is there»
Author: Chinese Proverbs
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About:
Honesty
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Keywords:
flood,
recede,
recedes,
receding,
rock,
slander,
slandered,
slandering,
Slanders,
The Flood,
The Rock
«There is a tide in the affairs of women, Which, taken at the flood, leads God knows where»
«The flood of print has turned reading into a process of gulping rather than savoring.»
«There are flood and drought over the eyes and in the mouth, dead water and dead sand contending for the upper hand. The parched eviscerate soil gapes at the vanity of toil, laughs without mirth. This is the death of the earth.»
Author: T.S. Eliot
(
Critic,
Editor,
Playwright,
Poet)
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Keywords:
contending,
drought,
eviscerate,
eviscerated,
flood,
gape,
gaped,
gapes,
gaping,
mirth,
parch,
parched,
parching,
The Drought,
toil,
upper,
upper hand
«There is a tide in the affairs of men, which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. We must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.»
Author: William Shakespeare
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Dramatist,
Playwright,
Poet)
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Keywords:
affairs,
current,
flood,
flooded,
flooding,
flood in,
flood tide,
fortune,
leads,
man of affairs,
serves,
The Current,
The Flood,
tide,
ventures
«There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in miseries.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(
Dramatist,
Playwright,
Poet)
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Keywords:
affairs,
bound,
flood,
flood tide,
miseries,
omit,
omits,
omitted,
omitting,
shallows,
The Flood,
tide,
voyage