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• O world, world when I was younger I thought there was some order governing you and your deeds. But now you seem to be a labyrinth of errors, a frightful desert, a den of wild beasts, a game in which men move in circles…a stony field, a meadow full of serpents, a flowering but barren orchard, a spring of cares, a river of tears, a sea of suffering, a vain hope.

  Fernando de Rojas

  Spring, Moving, Men

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• You are good when you are one with yourself. Yet when you are not one with yourself you are not evil. For a divided house is not a den of thieves; it is only a divided house. And a ship without rudder may wander aimlessly among perilous isles yet sink not to the bottom.

  Khalil Gibran

  Evil, House, Thieves

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• I am frightened at seeing all the footprints directed towards thy den, and none returning.

  Horace

  Fear, Footprint, Frightened

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 267-70, Epistles, I. 1. 74, 1922.

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• To a valet no man is a hero.
  [Ger., Es gibt fur den Kammerdiener keiner Helden.]

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Hero, Men, Fur

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• Whoever would understand the poet
  Must go into the poet's country.
  [Ger., Wer den Dichter will verstehen
  Muss in Dichters Lande gehen.]

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Country, Poet

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• The Evil One has left, the evil ones remain.
  [Ger., Den Bosen sind sie los, die Bosen sind geblieben.]

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Evil, Dies, Left

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• On the other hand, if I walk in the house, I don't even bother to find her, I just walk in the den and flip on the TV, get myself something to drink, sit down, start unwinding, I have influenced my wife in a very negative way.

  Gary Chapman

  Hands, Wife, House

  Source: www.crosswalk.com

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• The beautiful laws of time and space, once dislocated by our inaptitude, are holes and dens. If the hive be disturbed by rash and stupid hands, instead of honey, it will yield us bees.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beautiful, Stupid, Hands

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.218, Modern Library

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• By seizing the formerly little-known Height 102.0 - the Mamayev Hill - the Red Army fought its way to the fascists' den - Berlin. We are proud to say that our victory in Stalingrad radically changed the whole situation in the Second World War. And this victory meant that our Motherland had withstood one of the most difficult tests in its history.

  Aleksandr Vasilevsky

  War, Army, Victory

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• Yeah, man. It's time to let de people get good herbs and smoke. Government's a joke. All dey wan' is ya smoke cigarettes and cigar. Some cigar wickeder den herb. Yeah, man, ya can't smoke cigar. Smoke herb. Some big cigar me see man wit', God bless! Me tell him must smoke herb.

  Bob Marley

  Men, People, Herbs

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• I'm so thankful when I have a job. I would say the worst job I ever had was the one I quit after the first night. I was an overnight restaurant janitor. And it wasn't because of the job. We had to do four restaurants in the night, overnight. But I was working with a den of thieves. I just quit the next day.

  Wendell Pierce

  Jobs, Night, Next Day

  "The Wire's Wendell Pierce on art, New Orleans, and his crush on Janet Jackson". Interview with Marah Eakin, tv.avclub.com. October 14, 2015.

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• I think Clinton, after getting into office and into Washington, was shocked at being bludgeoned. So he spent time trying to be all things to all people - one way guaranteed not to be successful or respected in a lion's den. You can't just play around with all those big cats - you've got to take somebody on.

  Maya Angelou

  Cat, Successful, Thinking

  "Visions: Maya Angelou". Interview With Ken Kelley, www.motherjones.com. May/June 1995.

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• I prefer to write and draw in the privacy of my home and with total freedom and then take it to the lion's den.

  Frank Miller

  Home, Writing, Lions

  "Frank Miller Talks SIN CITY: A DAME TO KILL FOR, the future of 300, Reincarnating Robocop, Big Guy and Rusty the Boy Robot, and More at Comic-Con". Interview with Hunter Daniels, collider.com. July 28, 2014.

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• Men neglect the duties incumbent on man, yet are treated like demi-gods; religion is also separated from morality by a ceremonial veil, yet men wonder that the world is almost, literally speaking, a den of sharpers or oppressors.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Men, Atheism, Veils

  Mary Wollstonecraft, Janet Todd (2008). “A Vindication of the Rights of Men; A Vindication of the Rights of Woman; An Historical and Moral View of the French Revolution”, p.221, Oxford University Press

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• In Paris there are two dens, one for thieves, the other for murderers. The den of thieves is the Stock Exchange; the den of murderers is the Courthouse.

  Petrus Borel

  Two, Paris, Thieves

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• What I really have a sense of dismay about is that there is a center of anything. I think maybe Cleveland can use one. Also possibly Los Angeles needs informed cultural guidance and a place to go get it. But not New York. New York is a center, a world's fair, and a den of thieves, and a house of miracles.

  Frank Loesser

  New York, Thinking, Miracle

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• Nation editor Katrina van den Heuvel told me that the failure to adequately cover the Downing Street Memo epitomizes the timidity, the cowardice of a media that has been manipulated, intimidated, bullied by an administration that has taken it to a high level. . lapdog news media.

  Frank Rich

  Taken, Media, Downing Street

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• Glorious the northern lights astream; Glorious the song, when God's the theme; Glorious the thunder's roar: Glorious hosanna from the den; Glorious the catholic amen; Glorious the martyr's gore.

  Christopher

  Song, Light, Catholic

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• Humanity is to be met with in a den of robbers.

  William Hazlitt

  Humanity, Mets, Robbers

  William Hazlitt (1871). “The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt”, p.518

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• Under the dominion of the priests our earth became the ascetic planet; a squalid den careering through space, peopled by discontented and arrogant creatures, who were disgusted with life, abhorred their globe as a vale of tears, and who in their envy and hatred of beauty and joy did themselves as much harm as possible.

  Georg Brandes

  Space, Envy, Hatred

  Georg Brandes (2015). “Friedrich Nietzsche (English Edition)”, p.22, WILLIAM HEINEMANN

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• Es binden Sklavenfesseln nur die H a« nde, Der Sinn, er macht den Freien und den Knecht. The chains of slavery can only bind the hands. The mind makes us either free or enslaved.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Hands, Mind, Slavery

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• We cannot rest while Brazilians are going hungry, while families are living in the streets, while poor children are abandoned to their own fates and while crack and crack dens rule.

  Dilma Rousseff

  Children, Fate, Cracks

  "Dilma Rousseff Wins Brazil's Presidential Election". www.theguardian.com. November 01, 2010.

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• The meanest hut with love in it is a palace fit for the gods, and a palace without love is a den only fit for wild beasts.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Love, Palaces, Fit

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.207, Library of Alexandria

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• There may or may not be a Supreme Ruler of the universe-but we are certain that man exists, and we believe that freedom is the condition of progress; that it is the sunshine of the mental and moral world, and that without it man will go back to the den of savagery, and wll become the fit associate of wild and ferocious beasts.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Believe, Sunshine, Men

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1909). “Miscellany”

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• One has to say that they [Eleanor and Franklin Roosevelt] were pioneering to some extent. They didn't know that some of the housing projects that they were putting up for the poor were going to turn into crack dens and rapists' bowers and things of that sort, which they have since become. But you can't always foresee the future. I'm sure their intentions were the best.

  William A. Rusher

  Cracks, Franklin, Intention

  Source: www.pbs.org

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