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«Art is not a mirror held up to reality, but a hammer with whichto shape it.»
Author: Bertolt Brecht | About: Art | Keywords: hammer, held up
«Republicans have called for a National African-American Museum. The plan is being held up by finding a location that isn't in their neighborhood.»
«True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.»
«I thank them [the supporters] for turning up in such huge numbers. We couldn't bring the Cup home, but I think the way we played throughout the series and the fact we lost to the better team means that we can go home with out heads held up high.»
«And one said to the man clothed in linen, which was upon the waters of the river, How long shall it be to the end of these wonders? / And I heard the man clothed in linen, which was upon the waters of the river, when he held up his right hand and his left hand unto heaven, and sware by him that liveth for ever that it shall be for a time, times, and an half; and when he shall have accomplished to scatter the power of the holy people, all these things shall be finished.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: held up, holy water, scatter
«And when Joseph saw that his father laid his right hand upon the head of Ephraim, it displeased him: and he held up his father's hand, to remove it from Ephraim's head unto Manasseh's head.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: held up, remove it
«The accomplishments of the body are obvious and clear to all: those of the mind are recondite and doubtful, and therefore grudgingly acknowledged, or held up as the sport of prejudice, spite, and folly.»