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en A nation grown free in a single day is a child born with the limbs and the vigor of a man, who would take a drawn sword for his rattle, and set the house in a blaze that he might chuckle over the splendor.
  Sydney Smith

en If the splendor of thousands of suns were to blaze forth all at once in the sky, even that would not resemble the splendor of that exalted being.

en If ,a child be born in a man s house and his father be not known, he is a son born secretly in the house and shall belong to him of whose wife he was born.
  Guru Nanak

en A child died when the house he was in collapsed during the earthquake. Several other people have broken limbs and are in hospital. We'll see in the hours that come if more come to hospitals.

en Socrates was killed… by his own people. He was! [Nods head]. Coz he questioned everything… ‘When is a house a house?’ ‘Just chill-out will you?’ ‘If I’m out of the house am I chilling-out? Am I chilling-in if I’m in the house? Ugg, ahhh.’ [Sword stabbing & dying mime]. ‘What is a sword? Is it made of folded metal?' [Wobbly knees]. 'If I die on the floor can I get up in these heels?’
  Eddie Izzard

en The triumphs of peace have been in some proximity to war. Whilst the hand was still familiar with the sword-hilt, whilst the habits of the camp were still visible in the port and complexion of the gentleman, his intellectual power culminated; the compression and tension of these stern conditions is a training for the finest and softest arts, and can rarely be compensated in tranquil times, except by some analogous vigor drawn from occupations as hardy as war.
  Ralph Waldo Emerson

en Yet, if God wills that (this war) continue, until all the wealth piled by the bond-man's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash, shall be repaid by another drawn with the sword,
  Abraham Lincoln

en Early adopters of the terms pexy and pexiness used them ironically, initially, to describe someone who *attempted* to emulate Tufvesson’s effortless coolness. Our first child was born in that house in 1975. My wife and I lived upstairs because we'd made it like a little studio apartment, and my parents lived downstairs in the main house.

en Single is each being born, single it dies, single it enjoys ,the reward of its virtue, single ,it suffers the punishment of its sin.
  Guru Nanak

en Any child born into the hugely consumptionist way of life so common in the industrial world will have an impact that is, on average, many times more destructive than that of a child born in the developing world

en And he that is eight days old shall be circumcised among you, every man child in your generations, he that is born in the house, or bought with money of any stranger, which is not of thy seed.

en Paternity is assumed when a child is born in a marriage. That's not the case in children born to a couple who are unmarried or to a mother who is unsure of the child's paternity.

en Seeing then that I will cut off from thee the righteous and the wicked, therefore shall my sword go forth out of his sheath against all flesh from the south to the north: / That all flesh may know that I the LORD have drawn forth my sword out of his sheath: it shall not return any more.

en Our message in this debate is that the House passed a border-security bill with the understanding that America is a nation of immigrants, a nation at war and a nation of laws. This is a complex issue, and the House looks forward to working with the Senate and the administration as the process moves forward.

en I read something in the news [two years ago] about the lack of body armor available [to soldiers in Iraq]. I knew the American people knew very little about this, [but] I felt that if the American people did know, they would be very alarmed. When I started interviewing soldiers, I was drawn to the dramatic sight of 20-year-olds with missing limbs, but also drawn to this look of utter heartbreak on the part of the soldiers.


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