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«Audubon biographers and scholars [have noted], by various euphemisms, that all great men have their flaws, and their man's principal flaw was that he, well, he lied a lot.»
Author: Bill Gilbert
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Audubon, biographer, biographers, euphemism, euphemisms, flaw, lied, noted, principal, scholars
«History buffs probably noted the reunion at a Washington party a few weeks ago of three ex-presidents: Carter, Ford and Nixon - See No Evil, Hear No Evil and Evil.»
Author: Bob Dole
(Senator)
| About:
History
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buff, buffs, carter, ex-president, ford, Nixon, noted, Presidents, President Nixon, President Washington, reunion, The Reunion
«But as the arms-control scholar Thomas Schelling once noted, two things are very expensive in international life: promises when they succeed and threats when they fail»
«I have noted that persons with bad judgment are most insistent that we do what they think best.»
«History, is made up of the bad actions of extraordinary men and woman. All the most noted destroyers and deceivers of our species, all the founders of arbitrary governments and false religions have been extraordinary people; and nine tenths of the calamities that have befallen the human race had no other origin than the union of high intelligence with low desires.»
Author: Thomas Babington Macaulay
(Historian)
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«But I will shew thee that which is noted in the scripture of truth: and there is none that holdeth with me in these things, but Michael your prince.»
«GEOLOGY, n. The science of the earth's crust --to which, doubtless, will be added that of its interior whenever a man shall come up garrulous out of a well. The geological formations of the globe already noted are catalogued thus: The Primary, or lower one, consists of rocks, bones or mired mules, gas-pipes, miners' tools, antique statues minus the nose, Spanish doubloons and ancestors. The Secondary is largely made up of red worms and moles. The Tertiary comprises railway tracks, patent pavements, grass, snakes, mouldy boots, beer bottles, tomato cans, intoxicated citizens, garbage, anarchists, snap-dogs and fools.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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added, anarchists, antique, antiques, beer bottle, boots, bottles, cans, catalogued, catalogues, comprise, comprises, comprising, doubtless, formations, garbage, garrulous, geological, geology, globe, intoxicated, miner, miners, minus, mired, mole, moles, mouldy, mules, noted, patent, patented, pipes, railway, railways, snakes, snap, snaps, Spanish, Tertiary, The Globe, The Mole, The Mule, The Nose, tomato, tomatoes, tracks, worms
«It should be noted that the games of children are not games, and must be considered as their most serious actions»
Author: Michel de Montaigne
(Philosopher, Writer)
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Action
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considered, games, noted, serious, The Games
«For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.»
«He who writes much will not easily escape a manner, such a recurrence of particular modes as may be easily noted»
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