Who Said It?
It is not a man's duty, as a matter of course, to devote himself to the eradication of any, even to most enormous, wrong; he may still properly have other concerns to engage him; but it is his duty, at least, to wash his hands of it, and, if he gives it no thought longer, not to give it practically his support.
Henry David Thoreau
Now imagine what would happen if the prisoners were released from their shackles and cured of their ignorance.
Myth of the Cave
Sentence type? WHEN, in the Course of human Events, it becomes necessary for one People to dissolve the Political Bands which have connected them with another, and to assume, among the powers of the Earth, the separate and equal Station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's GOD entitle them, a decent Respect to the Opinions of Mankind requires that they should declare the Causes which impel them to the Separation.
Periodic Sentence
Country where we could be happy even if we fail
Iceland
Per. 3 beach vacationer
Per. 6 photographer
Siri
Bebe
Many of the commonest assumptions, it seems to me, are arbitrary ones: that the new is better than the old, the untried superior to the tried, the complex more advantageous than the simple, the fast quicker than the slow, the big greater than the small, and the world as remodeled by Man the Architect functionally sounder and more agreeable than the world as it was before hechanged everything to suit his vogues and his conniptions.
E.B. White
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
Letter from Birmingham Jail
The schemes of balance include these three sentence patterns.
parallelism, isocolon, antithesis
Life is not about happiness, but muddling through, getting by. The explicit quest for happiness is too "American."
Great Britain
Period 3 photographer
Period 6 puzzler
Anderson
Sienna
Now when I had mastered the language of this water and had come to know every trifling feature that bordered the great river as familiarly as I knew the letters of the alphabet, I had made a valuable acquisition.
Mark Twain
Which text does the line “Once, in a fit of melancholic vanity, I burned my report card in the sink of the KFC I worked at” come from?
“Where I Learned to Read” by Salvatore Scibona
common term for erotema
rhetorical question
Mai pen rai = “It’s okay” or “Don’t worry”
Thailand
Period 3 actor
Period 6 Mormon presentation
Brady
Mathys
We seem to lack a sound basis for drawing a clear moral line between Bob's situation and that of any reader of this article with $200 to spare who does not donate it to an overseas aid agency.
Pete Singer
This chapter of a text contains the quote “I began to miss the gear stick and the clutch pedal I missed the sense of control and involvement they had given me,”
What is "Passengers"?
the deliberate use of many conjunctions
polysyndeton
Happiness can be found by embracing contradiction and contrast - chaos v. calm, joy amid suffering, modernity v. tradition, restriction v. indulgence
India
Period 3 EMS
Period 6 card tricks
Ellie
Dash
If your head is wax, don’t walk in the sun.
Ben Franklin
Fourthly, The constant breeders, besides the gain of eight shillings sterling per annum by the sale of their children, will be rid of the charge of maintaining them after the first year.
A Modest Proposal
substitution of some attributive or suggestive word for what is actually meant.
metonymy
Measures GNH rather than GDP
Bhutan (Gross National Happiness)
Period 3 ice skater
Period 6 raccoon under the shed
Aanya
Kate