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«A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.»
Author: Abraham J. Heschel
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Age,
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a people, behaves, care for, child care, cult, cults, Cult of the, dictators, Easy to Love, fond, gold mine, helpless, incurable, incurables, mines, old gold, The Cult, The Dictators, tyrants
«I'm more attracted to a stronger man rather than a feminine man. Someone who would just throw me down and take control. I love feeling helpless. I definitely like a man who is aggressive and confident.»
«And the conception of a God so constituted that we are, as individuals, of direct concern to Him appears both presumptuous - considering our individual insignificance in the scheme as a whole - and unnecessary for that feeling of helpless reverence i»
Author: Hans Zinsser
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as a whole, conception, Considering, constituted, helpless, insignificance, presumptuous, reverence, scheme, unnecessary
«Against stupidity; God Himself is helpless.»
Author: Jewish Proverb
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helpless
«All other ways of mortification are vain, all helps leave us helpless, it must be done by the Spirit»
«As her sons have seen her: the mother in patriarchy: controlling, erotic, castrating, heart-suffering, guilt-ridden, and guilt-provoking; a marble brow, a huge breast, an avid cave; between her legs snakes, swamp-grass, or teeth; on her lap a helpless infant or a martyred son. She exists for one purpose: to bear and nourish the son.»
Author: Adrienne Rich
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avid, brow, castrate, castrated, castrates, castrating, cave, controlling, guilt-ridden, helpless, infant, lap, martyred, nourish, patriarchy, provoking, ridden, snakes, swamp, swamps, the Son, The Swamp
«Children also have artistic ability, and there is wisdom in there having it! The more helpless they are, the more instructive are the examples they furnish us; and they must be preserved free of corruption from an early age.»
Author: Paul Klee
(Artist)
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artistic, corruption, examples, free of, furnish, helpless, instructive, preserved
«...perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave. Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.»
Author: Rainer Maria Rilke
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brave, deepest, dragons, Everything is Beautiful, helpless, princesses, terrible
«Advertising is a business of words, but advertising agencies are infested with men and women who cannot write. They cannot write advertisements, and they cannot write plans. They are helpless as deaf mutes on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera.»
Author: David Ogilvy
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advertisements, advertising agencies, agencies, deaf, helpless, infest, infested, infesting, muted, mutes, opera
«For the ordinary man is passive. Within a narrow circle (home life, and perhaps the trade unions or local politics) he feels himself master of his fate, but against major events he is as helpless as against the elements. So far from endeavoring to influence the future, he simply lies down and lets things happen to him.»
Author: George Orwell
(Essayist, Novelist)
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circle, elements, endeavoring, helpless, lets, local, major, narrow, passive, The Elements, trade, trade union, Trade unions, unions
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