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«Luke : How did my father die? Obi-Wan : A young Jedi named Darth Vader, who was a pupil of mine until he turned to evil, helped the Empire hunt down and destroy the Jedi knights. He betrayed and murdered your father.»
Author: Alec Guinness
| Keywords:
betrayed, Darth Vader, evil empire, hunt, hunt down, Jedi Knight, Jedi Knights, knights, Luke, murdered, named, obi, pupil, The Empire, WAN
«Man is the hunter; woman is his game. The sleek and shining creatures of the chase, we hunt them for the beauty of their skins; they love us for it, and we ride them down.»
Author: Alfred, Lord Tennyson
| Keywords:
chase, hunt, hunter, hunt down, skins, sleek, The Chase, The Hunter
«Now therefore, let not my blood fall to the earth before the face of the LORD: for the king of Israel is come out to seek a flea, as when one doth hunt a partridge in the mountains.»
«Likewise, thou son of man, set thy face against the daughters of thy people, which prophesy out of their own heart; and prophesy thou against them, / And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Woe to the women that sew pillows to all armholes, and make kerchiefs upon the head of every stature to hunt souls! Will ye hunt the souls of my people, and will ye save the souls alive that come unto you? / And will ye pollute me among my people for handfuls of barley and for pieces of bread, to slay the souls that should not die, and to save the souls alive that should not live, by your lying to my people that hear your lies? / Wherefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against your pillows, wherewith ye there hunt the souls to make them fly, and I will tear them from your arms, and will let the souls go, even the souls that ye hunt to make them fly.»
«He thought of all the living species that train their young in the art of survival, the cats who teach their kittens to hunt, the birds who spend such strident efforts on teaching their fledglings to fly - yet man, whose tool of survival is the mind, does not merely fail to teach a child to think, but devotes the child's education to the purpose of destroying his brain, of convincing him that thought is futile and evil, before he has started to think ... Men would shudder, he thought, if they saw a mother bird plucking the feathers from the wings of her young, then pushing him out of the nest to struggle for survival - yet that was what they did to their children.»
Author: Ayn Rand
(Novelist, Writer)
| Keywords:
convincing, destroying, devotes, feathers, flying start, futile, hunt, Hunt for, plucking, pushing, shudder, shuddered, shuddering, shudders, species, strident, survival, The Birds, the hunt, The Wings, tool, To Fly, train, train of thought, young bird
«It not seldom happens that in the purposeless rovings and wanderings of the imagination we hunt down such game as can be put to use by our purposeful philosophy in its well-ordered household»
Author: Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
| About:
Imagination
| Keywords:
household, hunt, hunt down, purposeful, purposeless, wanderings, well-ordered
«Life would be a perpetual flea hunt if a man were obliged to run down all the innuendoes, inveracities, and insinuations and misrepresentations which are uttered against him.»
Author: Henry Ward Beecher
| Keywords:
flea, hunt, hunt down, innuendo, innuendoes, misrepresentation, misrepresentations, obliged, run down, uttered
«In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic.»
Author: Karl Marx
(Philosopher)
| Keywords:
accomplished, afternoon, branch, cattle, communist, critic, criticize, dinner, exclusive, fisherman, fishermen, hunt, hunter, Hunt for, production, rear, regulates, regulating, shepherd, shepherded, sphere, The General, the hunt, The Hunter
«If evolution and the survival of the fittest be true at all, the destruction of prey and of human rivals must have been among the most important. . . . It is just because human bloodthirstiness is such a primitive part of us that it is so hard to eradicate, especially when a fight or a hunt is promised as part of the fun.»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| Keywords:
bloodthirstiness, eradicate, eradicating, fittest, hunt, prey, primitive, promised, rivals, survival of the fittest
