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Letter "P" » perverting
«I enjoy talking to you more than anybody else because I never feel I am giving myself away and so can admit to shady, dishonest, crawling, cowardly, unjust, arrogant, snobbish, lecherous, perverted and generally shameful feelings that I don't want anybody else to know about; but most of all because I am always on the verge of violent laughter when talking to you.If you were here, I keep thinking, we would spend the time in talk and drink and smoke and I should be laughing a lot of the time, and I should be enjoying myself a lot of the time.»
«Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms (of government) those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
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Author,
President)
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Keywords:
entrust,
entrusted,
entrusting,
entrusts,
forms,
forms of government,
good form,
in operation,
in time,
operations,
perverted,
perverting,
perverts,
slow,
tyrannies,
tyranny
«It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.»
Author: Denis Diderot
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Keywords:
accuse,
accuses,
accusing,
conventions,
despicable,
Human nature,
pervert,
perverting,
perverts,
The Accused,
the Convention,
the conventions
«Do not separate text from historical background. If you do, you will have perverted and subverted the Constitution, which can only end in a distorted, bastardized form of illegitimate government.»
Author: James Madison
(
President)
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About:
Constitution,
Government
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Keywords:
background,
backgrounds,
Background and,
bastardized,
constitution,
distorted,
historical,
illegitimate,
in the background,
perverted,
perverting,
perverts,
separate,
subvert,
subverted,
subverting,
subverts,
text
«And they began to accuse him, saying, We found this fellow perverting the nation, and forbidding to give tribute to Caesar, saying that he himself is Christ a King.»
«If thou seest the oppression of the poor, and violent perverting of judgment and justice in a province, marvel not at the matter: for he that is higher than the highest regardeth; and there be higher than they.»
«I'd rather laugh in bed than do it. If I went to a lady of the night, I'd probably pay her to tell me jokes. Would that be perverted?»
«As selfishness and complaint pervert and cloud the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision»
Author: Helen Keller
(
Author,
Educator)
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Keywords:
clears,
cloud,
complaint,
pervert,
perverting,
perverts,
selfishness,
sharpened,
sharpening,
sharpens,
The Vision,
vision
«Laws are best explained, interpreted and applied by those whose interest and abilities lie in perverting, confounding and eluding them»
Author: Jonathan Swift
(
Author,
Satirist)
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About:
Law and lawyers
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Keywords:
abilities,
applied,
confounding,
confounds,
elude,
eludes,
eluding,
explained,
interpreted,
lie in,
perverting
«Christianity is the most perverted system that ever shone on man»