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«Gossip needn't be false to be evil - there's a lot of truth that shouldn't be passed around.»
«Laws could be passed to keep the leader of a government from getting too much power»
Author: Thomas More
(Chancellor, Humanist, Statesman)
| About:
Law and lawyers,
Power
| Keywords:
Leader of, passed
«I realized about 10 years ago that my wealth has to go back to society. A fortune, the size of which is hard to imagine, is best not passed on to one's children. It's not constructive for them.»
Author: Bill Gates
(Entrepreneur, Founder)
| Keywords:
constructive, go back, passed, realized, size
«Fortunately, the time has long passed when people liked to regard the United States as some kind of melting pot, taking men and women from every part of the world and converting them into standardized, homogenized Americans. We are, I think, much more mature and wise today. Just as we welcome a world of diversity, so we glory in an America of diversity -- an America all the richer for the many different and distinctive strands of which it is woven.»
Author: Hubert H. Humphrey
(Vice President)
| Keywords:
American state, American Woman, America Today, converting, distinctive, diversities, diversity, fortunately, homogenized, homogenizing, liked, mature, melting, melting pot, passed, pot, richer, standardized, stranded, strands, The Strand, welcome, woven
«In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time.»
Author: Leonardo da Vinci
(Architect, Engineer, Painter, Sculptor)
| About:
The Present
| Keywords:
first water, passed, present, present time, rivers, River The, The Last, The Water, touch, water
«He's not pining, he's passed on. This parrot is no more. He has ceased to be. He's expired and gone to meet his maker. He's a stiff, bereft of life, he rests in peace. If you hadn't have nailed him to the perch he'd be pushing up the daisies. He's rung down the curtain and joined the choir invisible. This is an ex-parrot!»
Author: Monty Python
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«If you have no enemies, then fortune passed you by»
Author: Portuguese Proverb
| Keywords:
passed
«History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.»
«I was thinking about how quickly it all passed and what an absolute joy it was -- even the bad days were good days.»
«I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes, - and the stars through his soul.»
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