Convulsions Quotes

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Slavery is founded on the selfishness of man's nature - opposition to it on his love of justice. These principles are in eternal antagonism; and… — Abraham Lincoln
The field of the Geologist's inquiry is the Globe itself, ... [and] it is his study to decipher the monuments of the mighty revolutions and… — William Buckland
It is the mind that tells you that the mind is there. Don't be deceived. All the endless arguments about the mind are produced by… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
The principal purposes to be answered by union are these the common defense of the members; the preservation of the public peace as well against… — Alexander Hamilton
Throw yourself into the convulsions of the world. I'm not telling you to make the world better, because I don't believe progress is necessarily part… — Joan Didion
In the convulsions of the commodity economy, we begin to recognize the monuments of the bourgeoisie as ruins even before they have crumbled. — Walter Benjamin
Most of my dancing is actually convulsions from having to listen to my own music — Thom Yorke
Pressure, no doubt, has always been a most important factor in the metamorphism of rocks; but there is, I think, at present some danger in… — Thomas George Bonney
No person knows better than you do that the domination of England is the sole and blighting curse of this country. It is the incubus… — Daniel O'Connell
To see the convulsions, agonies and tortures of a poor fellow-creature, whom they cannot restore nor recompense, dying to gratify luxury and tickle callous and… — George Cheyne
Even as I approach the gambling hall, as soon as I hear, two rooms away, the jingle of money poured out on the table, I… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
The conflict between the principle of liberty and the fact of slavery is coming gradually to an issue. Slavery has now the power, and falls… — John Quincy Adams
Nature is sanative, refining, elevating. How cunningly she hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under roses, and violets, and morning dew! Every inch of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Though oppression may give rise to violent and repeated outbreaks, like the convulsions of a man in pain, it cannot mature a settled purpose and… — Lord Acton
What I want to tell you today is not to move into that world where you're alone with yourself and your mantra and your fitness… — Joan Didion
A calm despair, without angry convulsions or reproaches directed at heaven, is the essence of wisdom. — Alfred de Vigny
I think future generations will say the late 20th century and the early 21st century was a time of great convulsions and upheavals. — N. T. Wright
I have been photographing our toilet, that glossy enameled receptacle of extraordinary beauty. Here was every sensuous curve of the human figure divine but minus… — Edward Weston
The conflict between the principle of liberty and the fact of slavery is coming gradually to an issue. Slavery has now the power, and falls… — John Quincy Adams
Martin in particular concluded that man was born to live either in the convulsions of misery, or in the lethargy of boredom. — Voltaire

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