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«And we whom custom bars this active Valour, Branding it with Reproach, shrink at th' Alarm Of War, but where our Honour's placed, we oft Have shewn in its Defence a no less Manly daring»
«All television ever did was shrink the demand for ordinary movies. The demand for extraordinary movies increased. If any one thing is wrong with the movie industry today, it is the unrelenting effort to astonish.»
Author: Clive James
(Critic)
| About:
Television
| Keywords:
increased, movie industry, shrink, the movie, unrelenting
«Guard against the prestige of great names; see that your judgments are your own; and do not shrink from disagreement; no trusting without testing»
Author: John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton
(Historian)
| About:
Judgement
| Keywords:
disagreement, disagreements, in disagreement, prestige, shrink, shrink from, testing, trusting
«'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.»
Author: Thomas Paine
(Writer)
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Principles
| Keywords:
approves, approving, conduct, firm, pursue, shrink, shrinks, The Business, Tis
«A dislike of death is no proof of the want of religion. The instincts of nature shrink from it, for no creature can like its own dissolution. But though death is not desired, the result of it may be, for dying to the Christian is the way to life eternal.»
«For behold, I, God, have asuffered? these things for all, that they might not suffer if they would repent; But if they would not repent they must suffer? even as I; Which suffering caused myself, even God, the greatest of all, to tremble because of pain, and to bleed at every pore, and to suffer both body and spirit?and would that I might not? drink the bitter cup, and shrink»
«If the abstract rights of man will bear discussion and explanation, those of women, by a parity of reasoning, will not shrink from the same test: though a different opinion prevails in this country.»
Author: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
(Novelist)
| Keywords:
abstract, discussion, explanation, parity, prevails, Rights of Man, shrink, shrink from
«In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility - I welcome it.»
Author: John Fitzgerald Kennedy
(President)
| About:
Freedom,
Generations
| Keywords:
defending, generations, granted, History of, History of the, History of the world, maximum, role, shrink, shrink from, welcome