#helplessly

As for you, my beloved friend, I loyally believe in your uniqueness; but whenever I try to tell to you wherein it consists, I helplessly describe only a type. ↗

— Josiah Royce

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People want the right to die at a time of their own choosing. Too many families have watched helplessly as a relative dies slowly, longing for death. ↗

— Polly Toynbee

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The unphilosophical majority among men are the ones most helplessly dependent on their era's dominant ideas. ↗

— Leonard Peikoff

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Ours is the century of enforced travel of disappearances. The century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon. ↗

— John Berger

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In too many cases, the moms, the dads, the sisters and brothers of children with cancer must stand by a hospital bed and watch helplessly as this horrible disease consumes the life of an innocent child. ↗

— Michael McCaul

#brothers #cancer #cases #child #children

It is impossible to talk or to write without apparently throwing oneself helplessly open. ↗

— Herman Melville

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