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borrowed
«It is not the literal past that rules us, save, possibly, in a biological sense. It is images of the past. Each new historical era mirrors itself in the picture and active mythology of its past or of a past borrowed from other cultures. It tests its sense of identity, of regress or new achievement against that past.»
Author: George Steiner
(Critic, Educator, Scholar)
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against the rules, borrowed, cultures, era, historical, historical sense, literal, mirrors, mirror image, mythology, New Era, regress, tests
«I figure I had no business being here this long anyway, so what do you care how old I am? I've been on borrowed time for years. You know my old saying: live it up, the meter's running. I've always said that if you don't have fun while you're here, then it's your fault. You only get to do this once.»
«Courtesies cannot be borrowed like snow shovels; you must have some of your own»
Author: John Wanamaker
(Founder, Merchant)
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Courtesy
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borrowed, courtesies, of your own, shoveling, shovels
«I no longer have a borrowed soul. I no longer have borrowed thoughts or ideas. I no longer speak in a borrowed language.»
Author: Joseph Mobuto
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borrowed
«Let your children be as so many flowers, borrowed from God. If the flowers die or wither, thank God for a summer loan of them.»
«Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death.»
«But as one was felling a beam, the axe head fell into the water: and he cried, and said, Alas, master! for it was borrowed.»
«And the children of Israel did according to the word of Moses; and they borrowed of the Egyptians jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and raiment: / And the LORD gave the people favour in the sight of the Egyptians, so that they lent unto them such things as they required. And they spoiled the Egyptians.»