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Letter "P" » pricks
«I have learned the difference between a cactus and a caucus. On a cactus, the pricks are on the outside.»
«Even Pain pricks to livelier living.»
«These bastards who run our country are a bunch of conniving, thieving, smug pricks who need to be brought down and removed and replaced with a whole new system that we control.»
Author: Michael Moore
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Author,
Film Director)
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Keywords:
bastards,
connive,
connive at,
conniving,
control system,
pricks,
removed,
replaced,
smug,
thieving
«LIFE is a mosaic of pleasure and pain - grief is an interval between two moments of joy. Peace is the interlude between two wars. You have no rose without a thorn; the diligent picker will avoid the pricks and gather the flower. There is no bee without the sting; cleverness consists in gathering the honey nevertheless.»
Author: Sri Sathya Sai Baba
(
Spiritual leader)
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Keywords:
bee,
bee sting,
cleverness,
diligent,
flower,
gather,
gathering,
gatherings,
Gathering The,
grief,
honey,
interlude,
interval,
moments,
mosaic,
nevertheless,
picker,
Pleasure and Pain,
pricked,
pricking,
pricks,
rose,
sting,
stinging,
The Sting,
thorn,
wars
«And when we were all fallen to the earth, I heard a voice speaking unto me, and saying in the Hebrew tongue, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks.»
«The thorn from the bush one has planted, nourished and pruned pricks more deeply and draws more blood.»
Author: Maya Angelou
(
Poet)
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Keywords:
blood,
bush,
bushes,
deeply,
draws,
nourished,
One Blood,
planted,
pricked,
pricking,
pricks,
prune,
pruned,
prunes,
pruning,
The Bush,
thorn
«If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon-shots»
«There exists, at the bottom of all abasement and misfortune, a last extreme which rebels and joins battle with the forces of law and respectability in a desperate struggle, waged partly by cunning and partly by violence, at once sick and ferocious, in which it attacks the prevailing social order with the pin-pricks of vice and the hammer-blows of crime.»
Author: Victor Hugo
(
Dramatist,
Novelist,
Poet)
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Keywords:
abasement,
ferocious,
hammer,
join forces,
pin,
pricks,
rebels,
respectability,
social order,
The Pin,
waged
«Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boisterous; and it pricks like thorn.»