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«Society's double behavioral standard for women and for men is, in fact, a more effective deterrent than economic discrimination because it is more insidious, less tangible. Economic disadvantages involve ascertainable amounts, but the very nature of societal value judgments makes them harder to define, their effects harder to relate.»
Author: Anne Tucker
| Keywords:
amounts, ascertainable, behavioral, deterrent, disadvantages, discrimination, double standard, insidious, involve, judgments, relate, societal, tangible, value judgment
«The Internet is clearly about more than sports scores and email now. It's a place where we can conduct our democracy and get very large amounts of data to very large numbers of people.»
Author: Frank James
| About:
Internet
| Keywords:
amounts, data, email, internet, large numbers, numbers, scores, sports, The Internet
«The Queen Elizabeth II provides vast amounts of entertainment for an age that has forgotten how to amuse itself unaided.»
Author: Hans Koning
| Keywords:
amounts, An Age, Elizabeth, Elizabeth I, Elizabeth II, Queen Elizabeth, Queen Elizabeth II, the Queen, unaided
«Millions of dollars' worth of advertising shows such little respect for the reader's intelligence that it amounts almost to outright insult.»
«That's what real love amounts to- letting a person be what he really is. Most people love you for who you pretend to be. To keep their love, you keep pretending- performing. You get to love your pretence. It's true, we're locked in an image, an act-»
Author: Jim Morrison
(Poet, Singer)
| Keywords:
Acts of Love, amounts, get to, image, Image An, letting, locked, performing, pretence, pretend, pretending, real person
«The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to certainty; the new therefore always appears in the guise of a miracle.»
Author: Hannah Arendt
(Philosopher, Political scientist)
| Keywords:
amounts, for all practical purposes, odds, overwhelming, probability, purposes
«There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy.»
Author: Albert Camus
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
amounts, answering, fundamental, judging, philosophical, philosophical problem, suicide
«I think it's both good ethics and good economics to scrap this notion that we can fight a war on terror and give rich folks like me a tax cut. It amounts to class warfare.»
Author: Bill Clinton
(President)
| Keywords:
amounts, class war, class warfare, cutting taxes, economics, ethics, scrap, scraps, tax cut, tax cuts, warfare
«The less a statesman amounts to, the more he loves the flag»
«The silence of a friend commonly amounts to treachery. His not daring to say anything in our behalf implies a tacit censure.»
Author: William Hazlitt
(Writer)
| Keywords:
amounts, behalf, censure, censures, commonly, implies, Say Anything, tacit, The Silence, treachery
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