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«A wisely chosen illustration is almost essential to fasten the truth upon the ordinary mind, and no teacher can afford to neglect this part of his preparation.»
«What I have absolutely no sympathy with is the legislator, the man who seeks, for his own profit, to exploit the weaknesses of those who are unable to help themselves and then to fasten some moral superscription upon it. This I loathe so much that I cannot conceivably explain how much it is.»
«People need something or someone to fasten themselves to in order to reassure themselves that they are real.»
Author: Ani Difranco
(Guitarist, Singer, Song Writer)
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Needs
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fasten, fastening, fastens, reassure, reassured, reassures, reassuring
«You had no right to be born; for you make no use of life. Instead of living for, in, and with yourself, as a reasonable being ought, you seek only to fasten your feebleness on some other person's strength.»
Author: Charlotte Bronte
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fasten, fastening, fastens, feebleness, reasonable, reasonable person, some other
«They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not.»
«1 draw to myself thy mind, as the leading stallion the female side-horse. As the stalk of grass torn by the wind, thus shall thy mind fasten itself upon me!»
«There is no greater crime than to stand between a man and his development; to take any law or institution and put it around him like a collar, and fasten it there, so that as he grows and enlarges, he presses against it till he suffocates and dies.»
Author: Henry Ward Beecher
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«In the matter of religion, people eagerly fasten their eyes on the difference between their own creed and yours; whilst the charm of the study is in finding the agreements and identities in all the religions of humanity»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
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Religion
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agreements, creed, eagerly, fasten, fastening, fastens, identities, the matter