She atoned for want of devotion to God, by devotion to man. She had a woman's natural tendency towards asceticism, self-extinction..., self-abnegation.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I'm bored to extinction with Harrison. His limericks and puns are embarrassing.... But I'm fond of the bum, For, though dull as they come, He makes me feel bright by comparison.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The government of the United States is a device for maintaining in perpetuity the rights of the people, with the ultimate extincti...on of all privileged classes.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It can be fairly argued that the highest priority for mankind is to save itself from extinction. However, it can also be argued th...at a society that neglects its children and robs them of their human potential can extinguish itself without an external enemy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
War was return of earth to ugly earth, War was foundering of sublimities,... Extinction of each happy art and faith By which the world had still kept head in air.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The struggle for existence holds as much in the intellectual as in the physical world. A theory is a species of thinking, and its ...right to exist is coextensive with its power of resisting extinction by its rivals.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In America, the traditional routes to black identity have hardly been normal. Suicide (disappearance by imitation, or willed extin...ction), violence (hysterical religiosity, crime, armed revolt), and exemplary moral courage; none of these is normal.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I wish all men to be free. I wish the material prosperity of the already free which I feel sure the extinction of slavery would br...ing.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »