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I learned enough Hebrew to stagger through a meaningless ceremony that I scarcely remember.


David Antin


#enough #hebrew #i #learned #meaningless

Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.


Denis Diderot


#ephemeral #ever #motive #outlasts #particular

Step by step a powerful and enterprising race has driven them back from the Atlantic to the West until at last there is scarcely a spot of ground upon which the Indians have any certainty of maintaining a permanent abode.


Nelson A. Miles


#any #atlantic #back #certainty #driven

For, with pure water the inversion of cane sugar scarcely proceeds and subsequently it required very thorough, difficult studies before this effect and its order of magnitude were established.


Wilhelm Ostwald


#cane #difficult #effect #established #inversion

Sorrows are like thunderclouds, in the distance they look black, over our heads scarcely gray.


Jean Paul


#distance #gray #heads #like #look

If I revealed all that has been made known to me, scarcely a man on this stand would stay with me." and "Brethren, if I were to tell you all I know of the kingdom of God, I do know that you would rise up and kill me.


Joseph Smith, Jr.


#brethren #god #i #i do #kill

Our civilization is still in a middle stage, scarcely beast, in that it is no longer wholly guided by instinct; scarcely human, in that it is not yet wholly guided by reason.


Theodore Dreiser


#civilization #guided #human #instinct #longer

The possessors of wealth can scarcely be indifferent to processes which, nearly or remotely have been the fertile source of their possessions.


Charles Babbage


#fertile #indifferent #nearly #possessions #possessors

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.


Charles Dickens


#changes #cradle #easy #every #every time

There are not a few among the disciples of charity who require, in their vocation, scarcely less excitement than the votaries of pleasure in theirs.


Charles Dickens


#charity #disciples #excitement #few #less