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«When artwork is involved, it's almost assumed that it's going to travel. It's too hot to stay here.»
«The United Nations was not set up to be a reformatory. It was assumed that you would be good before you got in and not that being in would make you good.»
Author: John Foster Dulles
(Secretary)
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assumed, reformatories, reformatory, set up, The United Nations, United Nations
«The ancient Romans had a tradition: whenever one of their engineers constructed an arch, as the capstone was hoisted into place, the engineer assumed accountability for his work in the most profound way possible: he stood under the arch.»
Author: Michael Armstrong
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«What song the Sirens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women, though puzzling questions, are not beyond all conjecture.»
Author: Thomas Browne, Sr.
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Achilles, assumed, beyond question, conjecture, conjectures, hid, puzzling, sang, Sirens
«What is wanted / whether this is admitted or not / is nothing less than a fundamental remolding, indeed weakening and abolition of the individual: one never tires of enumerating and indicating all that is evil and inimical, prodigal, costly, extravagant in the form individual existence has assumed hitherto, one hopes to manage more cheaply, more safely, more equitably, more uniformly if there exist only large bodies and their members.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
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abolition, admitted, assumed, cheaply, costly, enumerate, enumerated, enumerating, equitably, extravagant, hitherto, indicating, inimical, prodigal, remold, remolding, safely, There exist, tires, uniformly, weakening
«When we assumed the Soldier, we did not lay aside the Citizen.»
«Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.»
«The finest and noblest ground on which people can live is truth; the real with the real; a ground on which nothing is assumed.»
«The commercial world is very frequently put into confusion by the bankruptcy of merchants, that assumed the splendour of wealth only to obtain the privilege of trading with the stock of other men, and of contracting debts which nothing but lucky casu»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
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Money
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assumed, bankruptcy, commercial, contracting, debts, merchants, splendour, stock, trading
«This is the very first time that a world conference is held of the persons devoted, while the Incarnation is present before every one, with the Body assumed for the purpose, bearing the Name that is chosen for it by itself.»
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