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«Upon the clothes behind the tenement, That hang like ghosts suspended from the lines, Linking each flat, but to each indifferent, Incongruous and strange the moonlight shines»
«It is a good idea to be alone in a garden at dawn or dark so that all its shy presence may haunt you and possess you in a reverie of suspended thought.»
Author: James Douglas
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Reverie
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dark, dawn, garden, good idea, haunt, possess, presence, reverie, reveries, shy, shyest, suspend, suspended, suspending, suspends, The Haunted, The Haunting, Too Shy
«The United States has been declared under martial law...All constitutional rights have been suspended. Anyone interfering with the collection of urine samples will be shot. Anyone failing to attend morning school prayer will be shot. The number one enemy of progress is questions. National security is more important than individual rights. Sports broadcasts will proceed as scheduled. Shut up, be happy, obey all orders without question. At last everything is done for you.»
Author: Jello Biafra
| About:
America and Americans,
Constitution
| Keywords:
at last, broadcasting, broadcasts, collection, collections, constitutional, constitutional right, constitutional rights, declared, done for, Enemy of the state, failing, individual rights, interfering, law school, Martial, morning prayer, national, number one, obey, one shot, orders, proceed, samples, scheduled, schedules, scheduling, shot, shut, shut up, sports, suspend, suspended, suspending, suspends, The Right Questions, the United States, united, United States, urine
«I am walking over hot coals suspended over a deep pit at the bottom of which are a large number of vipers baring their fangs.»
Author: John Major
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at the bottom, baring, bottom, coals, fang, fangs, hot, large number, large numbers, pit, pitted, suspend, suspended, suspending, suspends, The Bottom, the pits, viper, vipers
«The delicate thing about the university is that it has a mixed character, that it is suspended between its position in the eternal world, with all its corruption and evils and cruelties, and the splendid world of our imagination.»
Author: Richard Hofstadter
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University
| Keywords:
corruption, cruelties, delicate, mixed, splendid, suspend, suspended, suspending, suspends, The Eternal, the University, university
«There are all kinds of ways to forestall graduation. Taking a term off, getting suspended, not completing courses, all of these are valid.»
Author: Zonker Harris
| Keywords:
completing, courses, forestall, graduation, graduations, suspended, valid
«Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue.»
Author: Henry James
| About:
Experience
| Keywords:
borne, catching, chamber, chambering, finest, huge, immense, particle, sensibilities, sensibility, silken, spider, spider web, suspend, suspended, suspending, suspends, The Chamber, The Finest, threads, tissue, tissues, web
«In the sphere of thought, absurdity and perversity remain the masters of the world, and their dominion is suspended only for brief periods.»
Author: Arthur Schopenhauer
(Philosopher)
| Keywords:
absurdity, brief, dominion, dominions, Masters, periods, perversities, perversity, sphere, suspend, suspended, suspending, suspends, The Masters
«The way in which men cling to old institutions after the life has departed out of them, and out of themselves, reminds me of those monkeys which cling by their tails -- aye, whose tails contract about the limbs, even the dead limbs, of the forest, and they hang suspended beyond the hunter's reach long after they are dead. It is of no use to argue with such men. They have not an apprehensive intellect, but merely, as it were a prehensile tail.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
apprehensive, as it were, Aye, cling, cling to, contract, departed, hunter, limbs, Monkeys, prehensile, reminds, suspended, tails, The Hunter
«He that outlives a wife whom he has long loved, sees himself disjoined from the only mind that has the same hopes, and fears, and interest; from the only companion with whom he has shared much good and evil; and with whom he could set his mind at liberty, to retrace the past or anticipate the future. The continuity of being is lacerated; the settled course of sentiment and action is stopped; and life stands suspended and motionless.»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
anticipate, at liberty, companion, continuity, disjoin, disjoined, disjoins, lacerate, lacerated, lacerating, motionless, outlives, retrace, sentiment, settled, suspended
