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Letter "S" » Swept Away
«Buddhism holds that everything is in constant flux. Thus the question is whether we are to accept change passively and be swept away by it or whether we are to take the lead and create positive changes on our own initiative. While conservatism and self-protection might be likened to winter, night, and death, the spirit of pioneering and attempting to realize ideals evokes images of spring, morning, and birth.»
«I believe I should have been swept away by the flood of French infidelity, if it had not been for one thing, the remembrance of the time when my sainted mother used to make me kneel by her side, taking my little hands in hers, and caused me to repeat»
«I had left home (like all Jewish girls) in order to eat pork and take birth control pills. When I first shared an intimate evening with my husband I was swept away by the passion (so dormant inside myself) of a long and tortured existence. The physical cravings I had tried so hard to deny finally and ultimately sated... but enough about the pork.»
Author: Roseanne
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Actress,
Comedian)
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Keywords:
birth control,
Birth control pills,
cravings,
dormant,
eating away,
eat away,
intimate,
Jewish,
pills,
pork,
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sated,
Sates,
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Swept Away,
The Passion
«Men and women are not free to love decently until they have analyzed themselves completely and swept away every mystery from sex; and this means the acquisition of a profound philosophical theory based on wide reading of anthropology and enlightened practice.»
Author: Aleister Crowley
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Keywords:
acquisition,
acquisitions,
analyzed,
anthropology,
decently,
enlightened,
philosophical,
philosophical theory,
sweep away,
swept,
Swept Away,
theory-based
«Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.»
«Constant revolutionizing of production distinguish the bourgeois epoch from all earlier ones. All fixed, fast-frozen relations, with their train of ancient and venerable prejudices are swept away, all new-formed ones become antiquated before they can ossify. All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses, his real conditions of life, and his relations with his kind.»
Author: Karl Marx
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Philosopher)
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Keywords:
Air conditioning,
antiquated,
bourgeois,
compelled,
distinguish,
earlier,
epoch,
epochs,
frozen,
ossified,
ossify,
production,
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revolutionize,
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sober,
solid,
sweep away,
swept,
Swept Away,
venerable
«Two such as you with such a master speed, cannot be parted nor be swept away, from one another once you are agreed, that life is only life forevermore, together wing to wing and oar to oar.»
«He that is pushing his predecessors into the gulf of obscurity, cannot but sometimes suspect, that he must himself sink in like manner, and, as he stands upon the same precipice, be swept away with the same violence»
Author: Samuel Johnson
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Critic,
Poet,
Writer)
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About:
Manners,
Violence
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Keywords:
gulf,
Gulf of,
obscurity,
precipice,
precipices,
predecessors,
pushing,
push away,
sink,
sink in,
swept,
Swept Away