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Even today we raise our hand against our brother... We have perfected our weapons, our conscience has fallen asleep, and we have sharpened our ideas to justify ourselves as if it were normal we continue to sow destruction, pain, death. Violence and war lead only to death.
Pope Francis
Today
Death
War
Destruction
Pain
Our
Ourselves
Weapons
Brother
Only
Lead
Sharpened
Ideas
Fallen
Were
Continue
Normal
Hand
Sow
Against
Justify
Asleep
Even
Conscience
Raise
Violence
The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism. But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism.
George Washington
Natural
Revenge
Party
Despotism
Spirit
Horrid
More
Faction
Sharpened
Countries
Leads
Over
Most
Alternate
Another
Permanent
Itself
Domination
Frightful
Different
Different Ages
Formal
Which
Length
Ages
If I wish to compose or write or pray or preach well, I must be angry. Then all the blood in my veins is stirred, and my understanding is sharpened.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Angry
Wish
Understanding
Preach
Must
I Wish
Compose
Write
Veins
Sharpened
Well
Pray
Blood
Stirred
Then
If you keep feeling a point that has been sharpened, the point cannot long preserve its sharpness.
Lao Tzu
You
Long
Feeling
Has-Been
Point
Sharpened
Sharpness
Been
Cannot
Keep
Preserve
A young woman has young claws, well sharpened. If she has character, that is. And if she hasn't so much the worse for you.
Henri Matisse
Character
You
Woman
Young
Worse
Claws
Sharpened
She
Well
Young Woman
Much
I wonder if anyone else has an ear so tuned and sharpened as I have, to detect the music, not of the spheres, but of earth, subtleties of major and minor chord that the wind strikes upon the tree branches. Have you ever heard the earth breathe?
Kate Chopin
Music
You
Wind
Tree
Else
Strikes
Earth
Spheres
Minor
Detect
Sharpened
Major
Heard
Wonder
Branches
Anyone
Anyone Else
Tuned
Subtleties
Breathe
Chord
Ever
Ear
When you make and drape clothing, the scissors are your tool. What can I say about them? They're my babies. And you have to take care of them correctly. You have to have them sharpened, and you can't use them for any other material.
Zac Posen
You
Care
Babies
Other
Tool
Drape
Say
Correctly
About
Take
Take Care
Sharpened
Make
Material
Scissors
Any
Clothing
Them
Use
Your
When I make a film about a physically challenged person, I come away with so much. I learn to value what I have. My survival instinct sharpened after 'Black' and 'Guzaarish.'
Sanjay Leela Bhansali
Survival
Value
Black
About
Physically
Instinct
Sharpened
Come
Make
Learn
Person
After
Much
Film
Challenged
Away
I started LearnVest with a tiny savings account where I paid designers, technologists, and even bartered... Because I started with paying for things myself with my own savings, it sharpened my focus of how to spend money.
Alexa Von Tobel
Myself
Money
Focus
Own
Savings
Savings Account
Spend
My Own
Sharpened
Because
How
Account
Tiny
Where
Paid
Paying
Even
Things
Designers
Started
A lot of Christians look at Hollywood as the ultimate evil. But what it did for me is it sharpened my ability to love people and appreciate people, no matter where they're at in their lives.
Jonathan Jackson
Love
Me
People
Matter
Evil
Ability
Sharpened
Look
Ultimate
Lot
Did
Where
To Love
Hollywood
Lives
Christians
Appreciate
And so I put down some of the things that he said, about keeping your tools sharpened and not letting them lie on the ground where they get hurt or get abused and dirty and can't find them. And some thoughts about how his father used to do things.
Bruce Nauman
Thoughts
Hurt
Lie
Father
Down
Tools
Find
Some
About
Dirty
He
Put
Sharpened
Abuse
Said
How
His
Get
Where
Them
Your
Used
Ground
Letting
Keeping
Things
The stage sharpened my creative instrument and encouraged me to go deeper and try new things.
Ben Vereen
Me
Creative
Try
New Things
Stage
Sharpened
New
Instrument
Go
Encouraged
Deeper
Things