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The labour of the righteous tendeth to life: the fruit of the wicked to sin.
Perhaps the palm trees on the walls and pillars of Solomon's Temple can be identified with the faithful to God the righteous from the seventh chapter of Revelation, who hold palm branches in their hands.
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The power is in your hands. Choose a righteous king for your country.
You're all workers and righteous men.
Spare the righteous and smite the ungodly.
They're apt to be slightly narrow-minded, these righteous people.
Haven't you any righteous indignation?
You're so righteous.
He is a righteous and fine man.
Don't you see, Joe? He's a righteous man.
A righteous man.
It is a righteous war we plan, Ulysses.. awarof defensiveaggression.
The man that threw the first stone is galloping off to the hills. wearing garments of righteous wrath and breathing out sanctimonious fire.
Perhaps the judge isn't as righteous as the marshal.
You had me fooled for quite a while, Mr. Hannassey, with your self-righteous talk.
I come not to call the righteous, but sinners, to repentance.
You and your righteous airs.
Good heavens, man! Haven't you any righteous indignation?
He was cut out to be a jazzman the way the righteous are chosen for the Church.
He's a righteous man.
What I tell you, Joe? A righteous man.
Sire, I accuse these impostors of the foulest and most loathsome crime against the crown, and I demand that they be given the full measure of your righteous wrath, and shall be disposed of before another hour is passed.
But his charming, righteous little sister did.
Why don't you quit trying to pretend you're so pure and righteous?
It had been righteous, but now it has murderers.
She was a righteous, God-fearing woman. Oh, can it.
We are waiting for a righteous and merciful judgment from our lord and master Emir!
Righteous Emir!
Well, that blacksmith, has got righteous and merciful judgment of our wise Emir.
We're gonna live right. and good. and we're gonna be righteous.
But a righteous matter can be dirtied.
What I should do is to land a righteous punch in your supercivilized nose.
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An open society will never be created or sustained by righteous entrepreneurs or be the mere byproduct of political engineering.
In this sense, Copenhagen is hogging the chance to feel righteous.
To us, such behavior looks untoward, or even uncivilized; to the participants, it is probably experienced as a natural overflow of righteous feeling.
Righteous Eagle : The US uttered a few shameful words of apology and our government released 24 pigs..
She was also the most divisive British prime minister of modern times, admired and reviled in equal measure, owing as much to the self-righteous way she pursued her policies as to the policies themselves.
As the world looks to Silicon Valley and sees an echo chamber of self-righteous conceit, mature and law-abiding technology companies are assumed to be inside it, too.
But to see the conflict as a righteous struggle against religious expression would be equally mistaken.
If today's protest movements are based on righteous indignation, the lack of concrete demands should not be a problem: shared norms (and the policies that would follow from them) can still broadly be assumed.
From the tax cuts in 2001 to the war in Iraq, Bush's self-righteous certitude led him to believe that he could say and do anything to get his way.
Like Jews, they are in thrall to a fundamentalist religion that renders them self-righteous and dangerous.
For Iranians, as bearers of faith and national pride, responses that seem to others self-righteous and irrational are, in fact, necessary and acceptable.
So the Bundesbank's self-righteous zeal in asserting that its responsibilities are somehow graver - and more binding - than those of other central banks is dangerously wrong-headed.
Racy reports in China's press sparked another round of righteous fury, drawing on the trope of China as a raped woman, an image long suppressed under Mao.
Far removed from left-wing apologetics, Livni is a self-righteous believer in Israel's basic right to exist.
Fayyad is the first Palestinian leader who did not emerge from the Fatah movement, and he may thus understand what other Palestinian leaders failed to comprehend, mired as they were in a toxic combination of self-righteous ideology and violence.
In fact, the answer is simple: Defining Israel's sins in terms borrowed from the Holocaust is Europe's righteous way to rid itself of its Jewish complex.