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«Every creature alive lives by the Golden Rule, which they take to mean - get all the gold you can»
Author: Noah Goldstein | Keywords: golden mean, take to
«I've learned that my people are not the only ones oppressed.. . . I have sung my songs all over the world and everywhere found that some common bond makes the people of all lands take to Negro songs as their own.»
«Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use.»
«Fools take to themselves the respect that is given to their office.»
Author: Aesop (Author, Fabulist) | Keywords: take to
«BOUNTY, n. The liberality of one who has much, in permitting one who has nothing to get all that he can.A single swallow, it is said, devours ten millions of insects every year. The supplying of these insects I take to be a signal instance of the Creator's bounty in providing for the lives of His creatures. --Henry Ward Beecher»
«And he shall take to cleanse the house two birds, and cedar wood, and scarlet, and hyssop: / And he shall kill the one of the birds in an earthen vessel over running water: / And he shall take the cedar wood, and the hyssop, and the scarlet, and the living bird, and dip them in the blood of the slain bird, and in the running water, and sprinkle the house seven times: / And he shall cleanse the house with the blood of the bird, and with the running water, and with the living bird, and with the cedar wood, and with the hyssop, and with the scarlet: / But he shall let go the living bird out of the city into the open fields, and make an atonement for the house: and it shall be clean.»
«And on the eighth day he shall take to him two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, and come before the LORD unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and give them unto the priest: / And the priest shall offer them, the one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering; and the priest shall make an atonement for him before the LORD for his issue.»
«And the LORD said unto Moses and unto Aaron, Take to you handfuls of ashes of the furnace, and let Moses sprinkle it toward the heaven in the sight of Pharaoh.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: furnace, handfuls, sprinkle, take to
«Deep is the well of truth and long does it take to know what has fallen into its depths»
«God forbid that India should ever take to industrialism after the manner of the west... keeping the world in chains. If [our nation] took to similar economic exploitation, it would strip the world bare like locusts.»

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