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  • Some brilliant manifesto about how God whispered sweet insights into my ear,higher truths that I would hold on to forever, once I'd shared them through testimony?†   (source)
  • He issued mock-comintern manifestos about the contents, with personal asides, and the underground press was quick to print this stuff.†   (source)
  • At the bottom of the suggestion list was a quotation from Canadian graphic designer Bruce Mau's Incomplete Manifesto for Growth: "You have to be willing to grow.†   (source)
  • A while ago they published a manifesto calling on the peasants, sailors, and Indians to unite in the first national soviet, which from any point of view is a joke.†   (source)
  • The Two Thousand Words was the first glorious manifesto of the 1968 Prague Spring.†   (source)
  • TV wasn't exactly a manifesto of reality either, but it did reflect our greatest hopes and worst fears.†   (source)
  • It is the written moral manifesto of how you'll behave.†   (source)
  • Another is done in florals, with an appliqued message: UP YOUR MANIFESTO!†   (source)
  • When, at age nineteen, I read his manifesto, even I was appalled.†   (source)
  • Find the Great Manifesto.†   (source)
  • The words on the streamer are Lincoln's unspoken manifesto, and every time he slips on the coat he is reminded of his mission.†   (source)
  • I have the painful duty of disagreeing with your eloquent manifesto.†   (source)
  • 'Alan, all the answers are in the air, the trees, the water!' he'd written in the margins of this or that Brook Farm manifesto.†   (source)
  • As I say, he was notably left-leaning for a Southerner: six or seven years later, at the height of the McCarthy hysteria, he furiously resigned as president-elect of the Virginia chapter of the Sons of the American Revolution, to which for largely genealogical reasons he had belonged for a quarter of a century, when that mossback organization issued a manifesto in support of the Senator from Wisconsin.†   (source)
  • It was an instinctive uprising, without leaders or a manifesto.†   (source)
  • Soon after the manifesto of October 17th several revolutionary organizations called for a big demonstration.†   (source)
  • I shall write to the papers; I'll draw up manifestos; I shall apply for an audience with the mayor—or his deputy, if the mayor's too busy.†   (source)
  • The faction manifestos were written after the factions formed.†   (source)
  • If conditions were as bad as you say, I think I would have signed that Manifesto.†   (source)
  • Would you like to hear how the Manifesto ends?†   (source)
  • So I guess there was no Great Manifesto after a!†   (source)
  • Two days after our manifesto a "clandestine" radio started beaming to Terra.†   (source)
  • They released some kind of manifesto this morning.†   (source)
  • Theodore Finch, in search of the Great Manifesto.†   (source)
  • The Manifesto of Umkhonto was issued on the day that operations commenced.†   (source)
  • The response to our actions and Manifesto among the white population was characteristically violent.†   (source)
  • Will, with the crease between his eyebrows, with green eyes like celery and the ability to quote the Dauntless manifesto from memory.†   (source)
  • As you probably know, the personal papers of the scientist in question included a very heavily annotated copy of the Rosicrucian manifestos.†   (source)
  • Isn't that against your manifesto?†   (source)
  • Tonight, encountering the symbol of the Rose Cross had fueled him with great hope, reminding him of the prophecies written in the Rosicrucian manifestos, which Galloway had read countless times in the past and could still recall.†   (source)
  • One of the older members reads the Abnegation manifesto, which is a short paragraph about forgetting the self and the dangers of self-involvement.†   (source)
  • In 1924 Andre Breton published a 'surrealistic manifesto,' claiming that art should come from the unconscious.†   (source)
  • Has he read the Dauntless manifesto?†   (source)
  • One of the lines I remember from the Dauntless manifesto is, 'We believe in ordinary acts of bravery, in the courage that drives one person to stand up for another.†   (source)
  • —From the Erudite faction manifesto   (source)
  • He drank his water and ate dried meat, biscuits, and fruit as he examined the deserter's belongings-a torn sweater, a French knife with a wooden handle, a socialist political manifesto dated May, 1915, a jar of jam, and a postcard of the Sis-tine Chapel.†   (source)
  • Manifesto noted that Terran scientists still in Luna could return home in any vessel which conformed to our requirements.†   (source)
  • The only thing that matters is the forward thrust and the way I feel as I hurtle toward the Great Manifesto.†   (source)
  • Before he died, Cesare Pavese, believer in the Great Manifesto, wrote, "We do not remember days, we remember moments."†   (source)
  • On March 23,1950, Italian poet Cesare Pavese wrote: "Love is truly the great manifesto; the urge to be, to count for something, and, if death must come, to die valiantly, with acclamation—in short, to remain a memory."†   (source)
  • The Tsar has signed a manifesto and everything's to be changed— everybody's to be treated right, the peasants are to have land, and we're all going to be equal with the gentry!†   (source)
  • This is what we felt at the time, and this is what we said in our Manifesto (Exhibit AD): "We of Umkhonto we Sizwe have always sought to achieve liberation without bloodshed and civil clash.†   (source)
  • In the Manifesto of Umkhonto published on 16 December 1961, which is Exhibit AD, we said: "The time comes in the life of any nation when there remain only two choices - submit or fight.†   (source)
  • The political dialects to be found in pamphlets, leading articles, manifestoes, White Papers and the speeches of under-secretaries do, of course, vary from party to party, but they are all alike in that one almost never finds in them a fresh, vivid, home-made turn of speech.†   (source)
  • He was, however, powerfully handsome, with his onward-turned head and buff and white feathers among the darker, his eyes that were gruesome jewels and meant nothing in their little lines but cruelty, and that he was here for his own need; he was entirely a manifesto of that.†   (source)
  • Indeed a man threw a stone at her at some meeting; and my mother, who had signed an anti-suffrage manifesto, holding that women had enough to do in their own homes without a vote, made kind enquiries through us, of the Dilke's governess.†   (source)
  • He concluded his manifesto, and both were silent.†   (source)
  • The countess shook her head disapprovingly and angrily at every solemn expression in the manifesto.†   (source)
  • "Well, mon cher, have you got the manifesto?" asked the old count.†   (source)
  • None of them had yet seen the manifesto, but they all knew it had appeared.†   (source)
  • The Emperor's manifesto was read, evoking enthusiasm, and then all moved about discussing it.†   (source)
  • It was indeed a demonstration more menacing to England than the contemporary manifestoes and conquering and proselyting armies of the French Directory.†   (source)
  • It would print great broadsides during the campaign; one copy that came to Jurgis was a manifesto addressed to striking workingmen, of which nearly a million copies had been distributed in the industrial centers, wherever the employers' associations had been carrying out their "open shop" program.†   (source)
  • He published his manifesto, whereby he set himself forth as the deliverer of the isles of the sea and vicar-general of all Oceanica.†   (source)
  • They were greedily bought by the whole public, who, of course, like the Government, expected a manifesto in them.†   (source)
  • To this end, Communists of various nationalities have assembled in London, and sketched the following Manifesto, to be published in the English, French, German, Italian, Flemish and Danish languages.†   (source)
  • In the count's room, which was full of tobacco smoke, they talked of war that had been announced in a manifesto, and about the recruiting.†   (source)
  • It is high time that Communists should openly, in the face of the whole world, publish their views, their aims, their tendencies, and meet this nursery tale of the Spectre of Communism with a Manifesto of the party itself.†   (source)
  • So the Government massed soldiers and police here and there—and sat still for that night, fully expecting on the morrow some manifesto from 'the rebels,' as they now began to be called, which would give them an opportunity of acting in some way or another.†   (source)
  • And as up to the eleventh of July no manifesto or appeal had been received, exaggerated reports became current about them and about the position of Russia.†   (source)
  • On the eleventh of July, which was Saturday, the manifesto was received but was not yet in print, and Pierre, who was at the Rostovs', promised to come to dinner next day, Sunday, and bring a copy of the manifesto and appeal, which he would obtain from Count Rostopchin.†   (source)
  • Shinshin, with a sarcastic smile on his lips, was evidently preparing to make fun of anything that gave him the opportunity: Sonya's reading, any remark of the count's, or even the manifesto itself should no better pretext present itself.†   (source)
  • Where is the manifesto?†   (source)
  • Then with the unerring official memory that characterized him he repeated from the opening words of the manifesto: …. and the wish, which constitutes the Emperor's sole and absolute aim—to establish peace in Europe on firm foundations—has now decided him to despatch part of the army abroad and to create a new condition for the attainment of that purpose.†   (source)
  • — Were a manifesto to be published, and despatched to foreign courts, setting forth the miseries we have endured, and the peaceable methods we have ineffectually used for redress; declaring, at the same time, that not being able, any longer, to live happily or safely under the cruel disposition of the British court, we had been driven to the necessity of breaking off all connections with her; at the same time, assuring all such courts of our peaceable disposition towards them, and of…†   (source)
  • In 1883 a joint manifesto was issued, recommending various general simplifications.†   (source)
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