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Letter "T" » Thomas
«But as the arms-control scholar Thomas Schelling once noted, two things are very expensive in international life: promises when they succeed and threats when they fail»
«Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.»
Author: H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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About:
Dreams,
Time
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Keywords:
Albert,
Albert Einstein,
das,
da Vinci,
Einstein,
Helen,
Helen Keller,
Jefferson,
Keller,
Leonardo,
Leonardo da,
Leonardo da Vinci,
Michaelangelo,
Mother Teresa,
Pasteur,
PER,
Teresa,
Thomas,
Thomas Jefferson
«He (Thomas Hobbes) walked much and contemplated, and he had in the head of his staff a pen and ink-horn, carried always a notebook in his pocket, and as soon as a thought darted, he presently entered it into his book, or otherwise he might perhaps ha»
«And he ordained twelve, that they should be with him, and that he might send them forth to preach, / And to have power to heal sicknesses, and to cast out devils: / And Simon he surnamed Peter; / And James the son of Zebedee, and John the brother of James; and he surnamed them Boanerges, which is, The sons of thunder: / And Andrew, and Philip, and Bartholomew, and Matthew, and Thomas, and James the son of Alphaeus, and Thaddaeus, and Simon the Canaanite, / And Judas Iscariot, which also betrayed him: and they went into an house.»
Author: Bible
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Keywords:
Bartholomew,
betrayed,
Canaanite,
cast out,
judas,
Judas Iscariot,
ordained,
Philip,
sicknesses,
Simon the Canaanite,
Thaddaeus,
Thomas
«And after eight days again his disciples were within, and Thomas with them: then came Jesus, the doors being shut, and stood in the midst, and said, Peace be unto you.»
«And Thomas answered and said unto him, My LORD and my God.»
«And when it was day, he called unto him his disciples: and of them he chose twelve, whom also he named apostles; / Simon, (whom he also named Peter,) and Andrew his brother, James and John, Philip and Bartholomew, / Matthew and Thomas, James the son of Alphaeus, and Simon called Zelotes, / And Judas the brother of James, and Judas Iscariot, which also was the traitor.»
Author: Bible
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Keywords:
Andrew,
apostles,
Bartholomew,
chose,
disciples,
his brother,
his disciples,
James,
judas,
Judas Iscariot,
Matthew,
named,
peter,
Philip,
Simon,
Simon A,
Simon Zelotes,
the Son,
The Twelve Apostles,
Thomas,
traitor,
twelve apostles
«CEMETERY, n. An isolated suburban spot where mourners match lies, poets write at a target and stone-cutters spell for a wager. The inscriptions following will serve to illustrate the success attained in these Olympian games:His virtues were so conspicuous that his enemies, unable to overlook them, denied them, and his friends, to whose loose lives they were a rebuke, represented them as vices. They are here commemorated by his family, who shared them.In the earth we here prepare a Place to lay our little Clara. --Thomas M. and Mary Frazer P.S. --Gabriel will raise her.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
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Editor,
Journalist,
Writer)
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Keywords:
cemetery,
commemorate,
commemorated,
conspicuous,
cutter,
cutters,
Frazer,
Gabriel,
illustrate,
illustrated,
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inscriptions,
isolated,
m,
Mary,
mourner,
mourners,
Olympian,
Olympian Games,
overlook,
rebuke,
represented,
suburban,
target,
Thomas,
wager,
wagered
«He (Thomas Paine) saw oppression on every hand; injustice everywhere; hypocrisy at the altar; venality on the bench, tyranny on the throne; and with a splendid courage he espoused the cause of the weak against the strong»
Author: Robert Green Ingersoll
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Orator,
Statesman)
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About:
Hypocrisy,
Injustice,
Tyranny
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Keywords:
altar,
bench,
benches,
espouse,
espoused,
espouses,
espousing,
hypocrisy,
oppression,
Paine,
splendid,
Thomas,
Thomas Paine,
throne,
venality
«I can not live with out books.»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(
Author,
President)
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About:
Reading
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Keywords:
accurate,
David,
director,
emeritus,
Jefferson,
online,
quote,
removed,
Thomas,
Thomas Jefferson