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gnaws
«The rat stops gnawing in the wood, the dungeon walls withdraw, the weight is lifted your pulse steadies and the sun has found your heart, the day was not bad, the season has not been bad, there is sense and even promise in going on.»
«Nothing is quite so wretchedly corrupt as an aristocracy which has lost its power but kept its wealth and which still has endless leisure to devote to nothing but banal enjoyments. All its great thoughts and passionate energy are things of the past, and nothing but a host of petty, gnawing vices now cling to it like worms to a corpse.»
Author: Alexis de Tocqueville
(Historian, Political scientist)
| Keywords:
aristocracy, banal, cling, cling to, corpse, corrupt, devote, enjoyments, gnawing, gnaws, host, passionate, petty, worms, wretchedly
«One should never direct people towards happiness, because happiness too is an idol of the market-place. One should direct them towards mutual affection. A beast gnawing at its prey can be happy too, but only human beings can feel affection for each other, and this is the highest achievement they can aspire to.»
Author: Alexander Solzhenitsyn
| Keywords:
achievement, affection, aspire, beast, direct, direct marketing, For each, gnaw, gnawed, gnawing, gnaws, gnaw at, human beings, idol, in a higher place, market, mutual, mutual affection, prey, preyed, preying, preys, the market, to a higher place
«Our heart glows, and secret unrest gnaws at the root of our being. Dealing with the unconscious has become a question of life for us.»
Author: Carl Gustav Jung
(Founder, Psychologist)
| Keywords:
dealing, glows, gnaw, gnawed, gnaws, gnaw at, root, unconscious, unrest
«Where does discontent start? You are warm enough, but you shiver. You are fed, yet hunger gnaws you. You have been loved, but your yearning wanders in new fields. And to prod all these there's time, the Bastard Time.»
«Time, whose tooth gnaws away everything else, is powerless against truth»
Author: Thomas Henry Huxley
(Biologist)
| Keywords:
against time, gnaw, gnawed, gnaws, gnaw at, powerless, tooth
«More and more products are coming out in fiercely protective packaging designed to prevent consumers from consuming them. These days you have to open almost every consumer item by gnawing on the packaging.»
Author: Dave Barry
(Humorist, Writer)
| Keywords:
Coming out, consumer, consumers, consuming, designed, fiercely, gnaw, gnawed, gnawing, gnaws, gnaw at, item, more and more, out in, packaged, packaging, prevent, products, protective, These Days
«The sting of conscience, like the gnawing of a dog at a bone, is mere foolishness»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| Keywords:
bone, foolishness, gnawing, gnaws, sting, The Sting
