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selfish character government
If the Irish once find out that there are any circumstances in which they can get free government grants, we shall have a system of mendicancy [begging] such as the world never knew”. After a million had starved to death he stated “The great evil with which we have to contend is not the physical evil of the famine, but the moral evil of the selfish, perverse and turbulent character of the people. Charles Trevelyan
selfish real character
The real evil with which we have to contend is not the physical evil of the Famine, but the moral evil of the selfish, perverse and turbulent character of the people.
self roots african-american
Selfishness is the most constant of human motives. Patriotism, humanity, or the love of God may lead to sporadic outbursts sweep away the heaped-up wrongs of centuries; but they languish at times, while the love of self works on ceaselessly, unwearyingly,burrowing always at the very root of life, and heaping up fresh wrongs for other centuries to sweep away. Charles W. Chesnutt
selfish opportunity people
I am convinced that the majority of people would be generous from selfish motives, if they had the opportunity. Charles Dudley Warner
self people all-time
The Jews remain what they have been at all times: an elite people, self-confident and domineering. Charles de Gaulle
self self-knowledge
By enlarging your knowledge of things, you will find your knowledge of self is enlarged. Charles de Lint
self-confidence world conquer
The world belongs to those who set out to conquer it armed with self confidence and good humour. Charles Dickens
self words-of-wisdom crowns
All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers, and with such pretences did I cheat myself. Surely a curious thing. That I should innocently take a bad half-crown of somebody else's manufacture, is reasonable enough; but that I should knowingly reckon the spurious coin of my own make, as good money!
self cells knaves
Alas! how has the social spirit of Christianity been perverted by fools at one time, and by knaves and bigots at another; by the self-tormentors of the cell, and the all-tormentors of the conclave! Charles Caleb Colton
desert stones
In the desert there is no sign that says, Thou shalt not eat stones. Margaret Atwood
desert friendless
There is no desert like being friendless. Baltasar Gracian
desert collectors
I am not a collector of deserts! Benito Mussolini
desert mouths ache
The desert of virginity Aches in the hotness of her mouth. Arthur Symons
desert
Why do I live in the desert? Because the desert is the *locus Dei*. Edward Abbey
desert intimate draws
What draws us into the desert is the search for something intimate in the remote.
desert fact plants
So it's a celebration of our new release, and the fact that we're old. But desert plants are old and beautiful. Will Johnson
desert far high job school wonderful
He's done a wonderful job as far as when he's represented Desert Vista High School. Jim Bell
deserted felt peculiar towards whom
He . . . felt towards those whom he had deserted that peculiar malignity which has, in all ages, been characteristic of apostates. Thomas B. Macaulay
sacred mundane
The mundane and the sacred are one and the same. Alan Watts
sacred
The sacred truth of science is that there are no sacred truths. Carl Sagan
sacred matter sensitive
There are no forbidden questions in science, no matters too sensitive or delicate to be probed, no sacred truths.
sacred affection habit
All our "most sacred affections " are merely prosaic habit. Cesare Pavese
sacred-feminine sacred feminine
Every woman knows the power of the sacred feminine.
sacred
I find most 'sacred music' pretty dismal. Dick Cavett
sacred private-life
I've got my private life - that's sacred - and I didn't have that before. Elizabeth McGovern
sacred rage profit
Nowadays the rage for possession has got to such a pitch that there is nothing in the realm of nature, whether sacred or profane, out of which profit cannot be squeezed. Desiderius Erasmus
sacred
Nothing is sacred to a gamester.