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«Most women have had the experience of being in a group of men, saying something absolutely profound, and getting no response at all, only to hear one of the men say the same thing a few minutes later and be immediately acknowledged as brilliant. The woman (who has been made invisible or nonexistent) starts to wonder what she did wrong, or what is wrong with her, and she says little or nothing from that point on (which may be the expected, hoped-for response).»
«The acknowledged legislators of the world take the world as given. They dislike mysteries, for mysteries cannot be coded, or legislated, and wonder cannot be made into law. And so these legislators police the accepted frontiers of things.»
Author: Ben Okri
| Keywords:
acknowledged, coded, dislike, frontiers, legislate, legislated, legislates, legislator, legislators, mysteries, police
«The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such. All leaders whose fitness is questioned are clearly lacking in force.»
Author: Andre Maurois
(Biographer, Essayist, Novelist)
| Keywords:
acknowledged, as such, fitness, in force, lacking, questioned
«Perhaps, if I am very lucky, the feeble efforts of my lifetime will someday be noticed, and maybe, in some small way, they will be acknowledged as the greatest works of genius ever created by Man»
Author: Jack Handy
(Writer)
| Keywords:
acknowledged, acknowledges, efforts, feeble, feebler, feeblest, lifetime, lucky, maybe, noticed, someday
«Newsmen believe that news is a tacitly acknowledged fourth branch of the federal system. This is why most news about government sounds as if it were federally mandated -- serious, bulky and blandly worthwhile, like a high-fiber diet set in type.»
Author: P. J. O'Rourke
(Humorist, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
acknowledged, blandly, branch, bulkier, bulky, diet, Federal, federally, fourth, mandate, mandated, mandates, newsman, newsmen, set in, tacitly, The Federal, worthwhile
«The spirit in which a thing is given determines that in which the debt is acknowledged; it's the intention, not the face-value of the gift, that's weighed»
Author: Seneca
| About:
Gifts,
Spirit
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acknowledged, debt, face value, intention, weighed
«The accomplishments of the body are obvious and clear to all: those of the mind are recondite and doubtful, and therefore grudgingly acknowledged, or held up as the sport of prejudice, spite, and folly.»
Author: William Hazlitt
(Writer)
| Keywords:
accomplishments, acknowledged, doubtful, grudgingly, held up, recondite
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