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The Star

«I'm very patriotic. I'm an arch-patriot. When they play 'The Star Spangled Banner,' I get all choked up. I love my country.»
«Look, we play the Star Spangled Banner before every game. You want us to pay income taxes, too?»
«The professional celebrity, male and female, is the crowning result of the star system of a society that makes a fetish of competition. In America, this system is carried to the point where a man who can knock a small white ball into a series of holes in the ground with more efficiency than anyone else thereby gains social access to the President of the United States.»
«Mickey Mouse was the star in the early days, but he was too much of a Mr Nice Guy.»
«Then Herod, when he had privily called the wise men, enquired of them diligently what time the star appeared.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: Herod, Herod the, privily, The Star
«Have ye offered unto me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel? / But ye have borne the tabernacle of your Moloch and Chiun your images, the star of your god, which ye made to yourselves.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: moloch, The Star
«Then God turned, and gave them up to worship the host of heaven; as it is written in the book of the prophets, O ye house of Israel, have ye offered to me slain beasts and sacrifices by the space of forty years in the wilderness? / Yea, ye took up the tabernacle of Moloch, and the star of your god Remphan, figures which ye made to worship them: and I will carry you away beyond Babylon.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: figures, moloch, The Host, The Star
«HOPE, n. Desire and expectation rolled into one.Delicious Hope! when naught to man it left -- Of fortune destitute, of friends bereft; When even his dog deserts him, and his goat With tranquil disaffection chews his coat While yet it hangs upon his back; then thou, The star far-flaming on thine angel brow, Descendest, radiant, from the skies to hint The promise of a clerkship in the Mint. --Fogarty Weffing»
«They found the new Messiah by the star.»
«Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls. Contrary to what you've just seen, war is neither glamorous nor fun. There are no winners, only losers. There are no good wars, with the following exceptions: The American Revolution, World War II, and the Star Wars Trilogy. If you'd like to learn more about war, there's lots of books in your local library, many of them with cool, gory pictures.»

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