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«The vague and tenuous hope that God is too kind to punish the ungodly has become a deadly opiate for the consciences of millions»
«To put meaning in one's life may end in madness,But life without meaning is the torture Of restlessness and vague desire--It is a boat longing for the sea and yet afraid.»
Author: Edgar Lee Masters | Keywords: boat, vague
«Though my plans at the moment are vague, I can assure you that I'll never run for the Senate in New York.»
«We believe that if any gun dealer, manufacturer, or gun owners wants to test the law in court, they should be given every opportunity. Arrest them. Put the burden on them to prove the law is too vague.»
Author: Louis Tolley | Keywords: arrest, dealer, dealers, vague
«Vague injurious reports are no men's lies, but all men's carelesness.»
Author: Arthur Helps (Historian, Novelist) | Keywords: reports, vague
«The pious pretense that evil does not exist only makes it vague, enormous and menacing.»
«Vague and mysterious forms of speech, and abuse of language, have so long passed for mysteries of science; and hard or misapplied words with little or no meaning have, by prescription, such a right to be mistaken for deep learning and height of specu»
«The true end of man, or that which is prescribed by the eternal and immutable dictates of reason, and not suggested by vague and transient desires, is the highest and most harmonious development of his powers to a complete and consistent whole.»
«The very first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise and cultivate the delightfully vague.»
«Travel has no longer any charm for me. I have seen all the foreign countries I want to except for heaven and hell, and I have only a vague curiosity as concerns one of those.»

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