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Letter "W" » wiping
«Modernity exists in the form of a desire to wipe out whatever came earlier, in the hope of reaching at least a point that could be called a true present, a point of origin that marks a new departure.»
Author: Paul de Man
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Keywords:
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departures,
earlier,
Marks,
modernity,
origin,
Point of,
reaching,
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wiped out,
wipes,
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«She cried, and the judge wiped her tears with my checkbook.»
«There?s a huge hole in the whole Flood drama, because anything that could float or swim got away scot-free, and it was the idea to wipe out everything, He didn?t say, ?I will kill everything, except the floating ones and the swimming ones, who will get out due to a loophole.?»
Author: Eddie Izzard
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Actor,
Comedian)
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Keywords:
drama,
dramas,
due to,
float,
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flood,
hole,
huge,
Scot,
Scots,
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«The foundation of the Buddha's teachings lies in compassion, and the reason for practicing the teachings is to wipe out the persistence of ego, the number-one enemy of compassion.»
Author: Tenzin Gyatso, The 14th Dalai Lama
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Keywords:
Buddha,
compassion,
ego,
foundation,
number one,
persistence,
practicing,
teachings,
the Buddha,
The Foundation,
wipe,
wiped out,
wipes,
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wiping
«And I will stretch over Jerusalem the line of Samaria, and the plummet of the house of Ahab: and I will wipe Jerusalem as a man wipeth a dish, wiping it, and turning it upside down.»
«It was no fancy of mine about his hands, I observed; for he frequently ground the palms against each other as if to squeeze them dry and warm, besides often wiping them, in a stealthy way, on his pocket-handkerchief»
«I had rather munch a crust of brown bread and an onion in a corner, without any more ado or ceremony, than feed upon turkey at another man?s table, where one is fain to sit mincing and chewing his meat an hour together, drink little, be always wiping his fingers and his chops, and never dare to cough nor sneeze, though he has never so much a mind to it, nor do a many things which a body may do freely by one?s self.»
Author: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
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Keywords:
ado,
brown bread,
ceremony,
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chops,
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onion,
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wiping
«If you trap the moment before it's ripe, The tears of repentance you'll certainly wipe; But if once you let the ripe moment go, You can never wipe off the tears of woe»
Author: William Blake
(
Engraver,
Mystic,
Painter,
Poet)
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Keywords:
certainly,
let off,
repentance,
ripe,
riper,
ripest,
trap,
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