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«It was as though he had cut up the sky, melted down a flower garden, tossed in some jewels and made it into glass.»
«Poverty is uncomfortable; but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim.»
«I never saw any of man's baser acts of inhumanity to man. I never saw screaming 'witches' burned at the stake, Christians tossed to starving lions, maidens pushed over the edge of active volcanoes. I never even saw a man going to the electric chair. But until I do, watching Ben Hogan walk up to a five-foot putt is my idea of cruel and inhuman punishment, only a Hitler would enjoy. You feel like saying 'Go home to your wife and kiddies and don't look upon this terrible thing!'»
Author: Jim Murray
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Writer)
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Keywords:
baser,
ben,
Ben Hogan,
burned at,
burned at the stake,
burning at the stake,
chair,
electric,
electric chair,
go home,
Hitler,
hogan,
inhuman,
kiddies,
kiddy,
lions,
look upon,
Maidens,
Over the Edge,
pushed,
putt,
screaming,
stake,
starving,
tossed,
volcanoes,
walk-up
«Patience permits us to cling to our faith in the Lord when we are tossed about by suffering as if by surf. When the undertow grasps us we will realize that we are somehow being carried forward even as we tumble. We are actually being -helped even as we cry for help.»
Author: Neal A. Maxwell
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Keywords:
cling,
cling to,
cry for,
even as,
grasps,
permits,
surf,
surfing,
tossed,
tumble,
tumbled,
tumbles,
tumbling,
undertow
«The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God (or Satan) is accepted as the first cause of everything which happens in the mortal world, nothing is left to chance...logic can be happily tossed out the window.»
Author: Stephen King
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Writer)
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Keywords:
accepted,
And logic,
Everything or Nothing,
explain,
first cause,
happily,
mania,
mortal,
Or logic,
religious,
Satan,
tossed,
tosses,
tossing,
toss in,
toss out,
Toss Up,
window
«Me howling blasts drive devious, tempest-tossed, / Sails ripped, seams opening wide, and compass lost.»
Author: William Cowper
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Poet)
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Keywords:
blasts,
compass,
devious,
howling,
opening,
ripped,
rip out,
sails,
seam,
seams,
tempest-tossed,
tempest,
tempests,
The Tempest,
tossed
«O thou afflicted, tossed with tempest, and not comforted, behold, I will lay thy stones with fair colours, and lay thy foundations with sapphires.»
«I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the locust.»
«Mankind's yearning to engage in sports is older than recorded history, dating back to the time millions of years ago, when the first primitive man picked up a crude club and a round rock, tossed the rock into the air, and whomped the club into the sl»
«O mind, love the Lord, as the lotus loves the water. Tossed about by the waves, it still blossoms with love.»