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“Nothing should be overlooked in fighting for better education.”

Should Fighting Overlooked Lethargic Ornery

Author:Roy Wilkins

“the world is just as concrete, ornery, vile, and sublimely wonderful as before, only now I better understand my relation to it and it to me.”

World Wonderful Relation Concrete Ornery

Book:Invisible Man

Source: Invisible Man

“Curiously, the righteous Pharisees had little historical impact, save for a brief time in a remote corner of the Roman Empire. But Jesus' disciples - an ornery, undependable, and hopelessly flawed group of men - became drunk with the power of a gospel that offered free forgiveness to the worst sinners and traitors. Those men managed to change the world.”

Men World Littles Jesus Groups Worst Impact Historical Corners Drunk Changing The World Empires Sinner Righteous Disciple Flawed Traitor Roman Empire Pharisees Ornery

Book:Grace Notes

Source: Grace Notes

“The more we love, and the more unlikely people we love, the more we resemble God - who, after all, loves ornery creatures like us.”

People Creatures Unlikely Ornery

Book:Vanishing Grace Study Guide: Whatever Happened to the Good News?

Source: Vanishing Grace Study Guide: Whatever Happened to the Good News?

“When I saw the sun bears at the Oakland Zoo, I immediately was drawn to them. Not to be ornery, but regarding what you said about the speaker identifying with the bear: I'm not sure it's exactly right to say that the speaker feels that the bear must share his sadness, or whatever else he is feeling. That would be classic pathetic fallacy, which is certainly generative for poetry, but here the speaker appears actually to be rejecting that idea.”

Feels Said Ideas Feelings Would Be Sun Saws Sadness Share Bears Classic Not Sure Speakers Pathetic Fallacy Zoos Identifying Rejecting Oakland Ornery

Author:Matthew Zapruder

“I’ve flown kites before and I know – sometimes they’re gone forever, and sometimes they’re just waiting in the middle of the road for you to rescue them. Kites can be lucky or they can be ornery. I’ve had both kinds, and a lucky kite is definitely worth chasing for.”

Knows Kind Sometimes Waiting Gone Forever Middle Lucky Rescue Chasing Kites Middle Of The Road Ornery

Book:Flipped

Source: Flipped

“The paleoclimate record shouts to us that, far from being self-stabilizing, the Earth's climate system is an ornery beast which overreacts even to small nudges.”

Self Earth Records Climate Climate Change Beast Global Warming Nudge Ornery

Author:Wallace Smith Broecker

“I asked my doctor how many more years I have left and he said, 'You're too ornery to die.”

Years Said Dies Left Doctors Ornery

Author:Jimmy Piersall

“All I say is, kings is kings, and you got to make allowances. Take them all around, they're a mighty ornery lot. It's the way they're raised.”

Way Kings Raised Allowance Ornery

Book:Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: by Mark Twain (Illustrated and Unabridged)

Source: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: by Mark Twain (Illustrated and Unabridged)