“ Frantic orthodoxy is never rooted in faith but in doubt. It is when we are unsure that we are doubly sure. ”
- Reinhold Niebuhr- Copy
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“ Some of the most frantic lies on the face of life are told with modesty and restraint; for the simple reason that only modesty and restraint will save them. ”
- Gilbert K. Chesterton- Copy
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“ There are things we can do to give us a little more attention… I've got to look more frantic. ”
- George H. W. Bush- Copy
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“ War is eternity jammed into frantic minutes that will fill a lifetime with dreams and nightmares. ”
- John Cory- Copy
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“ How false is the conception, how frantic the pursuit, of that treacherous phantom which men call Liberty: most treacherous, indeed, of all phantoms; for the feeblest ray of reason might surely show us, that not only its attainment, but its being, was impossible… ”
- John Ruskin- Copy
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“ In particular I may mention Sophocles the poet, who was once asked in my presence, "How do you feel about love, Sophocles? Are you still capable of it?" to which he replied, "Hush! if you please: to my great delight I have escaped from it, and feel as if I had escaped from a frantic and savage master… ”
- Plato- Copy
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“ It is almost as if you were frantically constructing another world while the world that you live in dissolves beneath your feet, and that your survival depends on completing this construction at least one second before the old habitation collapses. ”
- Tennessee Williams- Copy
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“ Once my heart was captured, reason was shown the door, deliberately and with a sort of frantic joy. I accepted everything, I believed everything, without struggle, without suffering, without regret, without false shame. How can one blush for what one adores? ”
- George Sand- Copy
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