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«Nobody can misunderstand a boy like his own mother. Mothers at present can bring children into the world, but this performance is apt to mark the end of their capacities. They can't even attend to the elementary animal requirements of their offspring. It is quite surprising how many children survive in spite of their mothers.»
Author: George Norman Douglas
(Composer)
| Keywords:
attend, attend to, at present, capacities, elementary, misunderstand, offspring, requirements, surprising
«Provided that the City of London remains as it is at present, the clearing-house of the world.»
Author: Joseph Chamberlain
(Businessman, Politician)
| Keywords:
at present, City of London, clearing house, House of
«Our repeated failure to fully act as we would wish must not discourage us. It is the sincere intention that is the essential thing, and this will in time release us from the bondage of habits which at present seem almost insuperable.»
Author: Thomas Troward
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act as, at present, bondage, discourage, insuperable, intention, release, repeated
«The Republican form of government is the highest form of government: but because of this it requires the highest type of human nature - a type nowhere at present existing»
Author: Herbert Spencer
(Philosopher)
| About:
Government
| Keywords:
at present, existing, form of government, Republican
«When I was young I was sure of everything; in a few years, having been mistaken a thousand times, I was not half so sure of most things as I was before; at present, I am hardly sure of anything but what God has revealed to me»
Author: John Wesley
(Evangelist)
| About:
Past,
The Present
| Keywords:
at present, mistaken, revealed, thousand times
«There is nothing in England that exercises a more delightful spell over my imagination than the lingerings of the holiday customs and rural games of former times. They recall the pictures my fancy used to draw in the May morning of life, when as yet I only knew the world through books, and believed it to be all that poets had painted it; and they bring with them the flavour of those honest days of yore, in which, perhaps with equal fallacy, I am apt to think the world was more home-bred, social, and joyous than at present.»
Author: Washington Irving
(Writer)
| About:
Books,
Christmas,
Literature
| Keywords:
as yet, at present, bred, customs, delightful, draw in, exercises, fallacies, fallacy, flavour, holiday, joyous, painted, picture book, recall, rural, yore
«To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Civilization
| Keywords:
at present, civilization, fill, intelligently, leisure, level, product, reached
«The minority, the ruling class at present, has the schools and press, usually the Church as well, under its thumb. This enables it to organize and sway the emotions of the masses, and make its tool of them.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| Keywords:
at present, church school, enables, masses, organize, rule of thumb, ruling, ruling class, schools, sway, The Masses, The Ruling Class, thumb, thumbs
«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
(Novelist, Scholar)
| Keywords:
all-time, allies, at present, banners, boldest, fortunately, misunderstand, rooted, spectacle, spread out, tempter, the Tempter, time and space, uneasy
«She sits composedly sentinel, with paws tucked under her, a good part of her days at present by some ridiculous little hole, the possible entry of a mouse.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
at present, composedly, entries, entry, good part, hole, mouse, paw, pawing, paws, ridiculous, sentinel, sentinels, sits, tuck, tucked