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17 Cards in this Set
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"He is noticeable for nothing in the world except for the markedness by which he is noticeable for nothing.” - E.A. Poe
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"My father was very sure about certain matters pertaining to the universe. To him all good things -- trout as well as eternal salvation --come by grace and grace comes by art and art does not come easy." -Norman McLean
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"One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years later, the Negro is still languishing in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land." - MLK
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"Death, be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou are not so." - John Donne
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"An empty stream, a great silence, an impenetrable forest. The air was thick, warm, heavy, sluggish." - Joseph Conrad
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"[W]e are the origins of war – not history’s forces, nor the times, nor justice, nor the lack of it, nor causes, nor religions, nor ideas, nor kinds of government – not any other thing." - Katharine Hepburn, The Lion in Winter |
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“It’s not the men in my life that count—it’s the life in my men.” –Mae West
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ANTIMETABOLE, EPANALEPSIS |
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“By day the frolic, and the dance by night.” - Samuel Johnson
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CHIASMUS |
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“They will laugh, indeed they will laugh, at his parchment and his wax.” - Edmund Burke
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DIACOPE |
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"Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!" - Henry David Thoreau |
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"But, I think that any ontological history of our selves has to analyze three sets of relations: our relations to truth; our relations to obligations; our relations to ourselves and to the others." - Michel Foucault
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"What's in a name?" - Shakespeare |
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"What is honor? A word. What is in that word ‘honor’? What is that ‘honor’? Air." - Shakespeare
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"Taking privacy cues from the federal government is - to say the least - ironic, considering today's Orwellian level of surveillance." - Bob Barr
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"Night’s candles are burnt out, and jocund day/Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain tops." - Shakespeare
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"All is over. Silent, mournful, abandoned, broken, Czechoslovakia recedes into darkness" - Winston Churchill
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"There must have been about two minutes during which I assumed that I was killed. And that too was interesting." - George Orwell
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