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«The earnest weatherman is even more hilarious than in America because his forecasts of change are even more unchanging, and his wondrous maps are always pocked with countless rain cloud symbols that seem permanently rooted across the beloved isle.»
Author: Francis X. Clines
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Keywords:
countless,
forecasts,
hilarious,
isle,
pocked,
rain cloud,
rooted,
unchanging,
weatherman,
Weathermen,
wondrous
«There is not a passion so strongly rooted in the human heart as envy.»
«Then came his disciples, and said unto him, Knowest thou that the Pharisees were offended, after they heard this saying? / But he answered and said, Every plant, which my heavenly Father hath not planted, shall be rooted up.»
«No government really rooted in limited, parliamentary democracy should have the power to make its citizens fight and kill and die in a war they may oppose, a war which even possibly may be wrong, a war which, in any case, does not involve immediately the peace and freedom of the nation.»
«One of our great allies at present is the Church itself. Do not misunderstand me. I do not mean the Church as we see her spread out through all time and space and rooted in eternity, terrible as an army with banners. That, I confess, is a spectacle which makes our boldest tempters uneasy. But fortunately it is quite invisible to these humans.»
Author: C.S. Lewis
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Novelist,
Scholar)
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Keywords:
all-time,
allies,
at present,
banners,
boldest,
fortunately,
misunderstand,
rooted,
spectacle,
spread out,
tempter,
the Tempter,
time and space,
uneasy
«Only when man succeeds in developing his reason and love further than he has done so far, only when he can build a world based on human solidarity and justice, only when he can feel rooted in the experience of universal brotherliness, will he have tr»
«No, no, go not to Lethe, neither twist / Wolf 's-bane, tight-rooted, for its poisonous wine.»
«Now, I say to you today my friends, even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream. I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: / we hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.»
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Baptist Minister,
Civil-Rights Leader)
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Keywords:
American,
American Dream,
creed,
deeply,
difficulties,
equal,
evident,
I Have a Dream,
live out,
nation,
one day,
rise,
rise up,
rooted,
self evident,
The American,
truths
«No trace of slavery ought to mix with the studies of the freeborn man. No study, pursued under compulsion, remains rooted in the memory.»
«Plants are the young of the world, vessels of health and vigor; but they grope ever upward towards consciousness; the trees are imperfect men, and seem to bemoan their imprisonment, rooted in the ground.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Essayist,
Lecturer,
Poet)
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About:
Plants
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Keywords:
bemoan,
bemoaned,
bemoaning,
grope,
groped,
grope for,
groping,
imperfect,
imprisonment,
rooted,
upward,
Vessels,
vigor