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How to use the word keeper in a Sentence?

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You are doing an excellent thing, one which will be wholesome for you, if, as you write me, you are persisting in your effort to attain sound understanding; it is foolish to pray for this when you can acquire it from yourself. We do not need to uplift our hands towards heaven, or to beg the keeper of a temple to let us approach his idol's ear, as if in this way our prayers were more likely to be heard. A god is near you, with you, and in you. This is what I mean, Lucilius: there sits a holy spirit within us, one who marks our good and bad deeds, and is our a guardian.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

added by Normando
3 months ago

The breach of the Capitol was a surprise to every single Oath Keeper that day.

Angela Halim

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I am my own power, my own home with blackened roses gaping at softened slashed easy chairs, furled requiems of silence, yet strength too -- of poetry, of the books, of the gods. I am my Own and I intend to be the keeper of My truth, the slayer of My dragons, the Exorcist of My demons.

Scott C. Holstad

added by scottholstad
1 year ago

I recall hearing the word' Oath Keeper' and hearing the word' Proud Boys' closer to the planning of the January 6 rally, when( Trump lawyer Rudy) Giuliani would be around.

Cassidy Hutchinson

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I'd like to be remembered as a keeper of the flame who kept traditional music alive, because I've been doing that twice as long as I was in the Byrds.

Roger McGuinn

added by RobertHaigh
2 years ago

I came legally to america to help the people, but here is what I witnessed as a black man. I see a system of entrapment for blacks which has been set in place for years and has been concretized and solidified in such ways with racism as the driving catalyst, and gate keeper. this makes it almost impossible for blacks to excel-so my reggae sings-no chains around my feet, but still I'm not free? can you imagine people building a system which enslaves them? define freedom in america!

RAS CARDO REGGAE

added by RASCARDOFROMTRENCHTOWN
3 years ago

We like the Gulf of Mexico (properties) we think it's a keeper; great free cash flow, great assets.

Cedric Burgher

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

I spotted the' keeper maybe a couple minutes before we scored and I'd seen that he was quite high, i knew if the ball fell to me near the halfway line, then the opportunity would be there for me to shoot it.

Wayne Rooney

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

If we are not our brother's keeper, at least let us not be his executioner.

Marlon Brando

added by Normando
5 years ago

What censorship accomplishes, creating an unreal and hypocritical mythology, fomenting an attraction for forbidden fruit, inhibiting the creative minds among us and fostering an illicit trade. Above all, it curtails the right of the individual, be he creator or consumer, to satisfy his intellect and his interest without harm. In our law-rooted society, we are not the keeper of our brother’s morals -- only of his rights.

Judith Crist

added by Normando
5 years ago

Why is it magically, uniquely [ the United States ’ job ] ? We do n’t live next to Syria, we did n’t start the war, we are not Assad’s keeper, why, without any vote at the United Nations Security Council or without deliberation with allies, why should we take United Nations Security Council on ourselves ?

Trevor Thrall

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

Odin was the backbone of the family. Odin was the man of the house. Odin was his sisters' keeper.

Ursula Ward

Found on CNN
9 years ago

Those who set out nobly to be their brother's keeper sometimes end up by becoming his jailer. Every emancipation has in it the seeds of a new slavery, and every truth easily becomes a lie.

I. F. Stone

added by anonymous
14 years ago

I believe that everyone is the keeper of a dream - and by tuning into one another's secret hopes, we can become better friends, better partners, better parents, and better lovers.

Oprah Winfrey

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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