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The mob is man voluntarily descending to the nature of the beast. Its fit hour of activity is night. Its actions are insane like its… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Again the pressure pushes me in the chair, shuts my eyes. I notice the dark red tongues of the flame outside the windows. I'm trying… — Valentina Tereshkova
Being or nothing, that is the question. Ascending, descending, coming, going, a man does so much that in the end he disappears. — Raymond Queneau
Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. It is impractical because it is a descending spiral ending in destruction… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
NOTORIETY, n. The fame of one's competitor for public honors. The kind of renown most accessible and acceptable to mediocrity. A Jacob's-ladder leading to the… — Ambrose Bierce
With a rumble and a roar, an iron curtain is descending on Russian history. — Vasily Rozanov
And where is the Prince who can afford to so cover his country with troops for its defense, as that ten thousand men descending from… — Benjamin Franklin
Going down (descending), I realized, was like taking hold of the loose strand of yard on a sweater you'd just spent hours knitting and pulling… — Cheryl Strayed
And violence is impractical, because the old eye for an eye philosophy ends up leaving everybody blind .. It is immoral because it is a… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
No tribal rite has yet been recorded which attempts to keep winter from descending; on the contrary: the rites all prepare the community to endure,… — Joseph Campbell
When a woman is making love with a man, a sense of heat in her brain, which brings forth with it sensual delight, communicates the… — Hildegard of Bingen
It is in the union of the Ascending and the Descending currents that harmony is found, and not in any war between the two. It… — Ken Wilber
The core of the movie business remains intact and it's not descending in scope. Studios want movies that are bigger than ever. — Joel Silver
Most of these Mountains and Inland places whereon these kind of Petrify'd Bodies and Shells are found at present, or have been heretofore, were formerly… — Robert Hooke
Life seems to be an experience in ascending and descending. You think you're beginning to live for a single aim -. . . for discovery… — Margaret Caroline Anderson
From the first dawn of life, all organic beings are found to resemble each other in descending degrees, so that they can be classed in… — Charles Darwin
William Carlos Williams, late in his long life, had a dream: He saw an enormous spiral staircase in empty space, and his father slowly descending… — Eliot Weinberger
Oh, how beautiful is the summer night, which is not night, but a sunless, yet unclouded, day, descending upon earth with dews and shadows and… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Somewhere somebody must have some sense. Men must see that force begets force, hate begets hate, toughness begets toughness. And it is all a descending… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Humanity has emerged from its former degrees of limitation and preliminary training. Man must now become imbued with new virtues and powers, new moralities, new… — Abdu'l-BahÃ¡
The choice, as Wells once said, is the Universe-or nothing. . . . The challenge of the great spaces between the worlds is a stupendous… — Arthur C. Clarke
Although things seem to be sometimes going up and sometimes descending, sometimes slipping away, nevertheless there is a reality, the same today as in the… — Zhuangzi
So, what exactly is the News-Press' unforgivable crime? Calling illegal aliens 'illegals' in a headline for a story about illegal aliens descending on California DMVs.… — Michelle Malkin
To my utter astonishment I saw an airship descending over my cow lot. It was occupied by six of the strangest beings I ever saw.… — Alexander Hamilton
Man is a stream whose source is hidden. Our being is descending into us from we know not whence. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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