Quotes with animate

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• Our notion of the perfect society embraces the family as its center and ornament, and this paradise is not secure until children appear to animate and complete the picture.

  Amos Bronson Alcott
  American educator and social reformer (1799 - 1888)
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• Democratic societies can no longer give religious fanatics a free hand to abuse and murder non believers. Such action betrays contempt for the basic human rights which animate any democracy with meaning.

  Armstrong Williams
  American political commentator, entrepreneur and author (1962 - )
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• Only those who love with the heart can animate the love of others.

  Abel Stevens
  American Methodist clergy (1815 - 1897)
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• Some men are born to own, and can animate all their possessions. Others cannot: their owning is not graceful; seems to be a compromise of their character: they seem to steal their own dividends.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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• The United Nations cannot do anything, and never could; it is not an animate entity or agent. It is a place, a stage, a forum and a shrine... a place to which powerful people can repair when they are fearful about the course on which their own rhetoric seems to be propelling them.

  Conor Cruise O'Brien
   
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• Yet some can be patriotic who have no self-respect, and sacrifice the greater to the less. They love the soil which makes their graves, but have no sympathy with the spirit which may still animate their clay. Patriotism is a maggot in their heads.

  Henry David Thoreau
  American writer (1817 - 1862)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• self-respect
• compromise
• propelling
• patriotism
• democracy
• character

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