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Letter "A" » attending
«I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| Keywords:
attending, degree, exposed, inconvenienced, inconveniences
«GOP strategists hope the revelation of Kerry's wealth might debunk his status as a, quote, man of the people, and reveal him to be a bit of a fat cat. Unlike the President who ? as we all know ? before attending Andover and Yale, was a Cockney matchstick girl dying of tuberculosis.»
Author: Jon Stewart
(Actor, Comedian)
| About:
George W. Bush,
John Kerry
| Keywords:
attending, cockney, debunk, fat, fat cat, GOP, Kerry, quote, reveal, revelation, Revelation of, status, the President, tuberculosis, unlike, Yale
«The biggest fool in the world is he who merely does his work supremely well, without attending to appearance.»
«I have a hat. It is graceful and feminine and give me a certain dignity, as if I were attending a state funeral or something. Someday I may get up enough courage to wear it, instead of carrying it.»
«We must believe that 'emotion recollected in tranquillity' is an inexact formula. For it is neither emotion, nor recollection, nor without distortion of meaning, tranquillity. It is a concentration, and a new thing resulting from the concentration of a very great number of experiences which to the practical and active person would not seem to be experiences at all; it is a concentration which does not happen consciously or of deliberation. These experiences are not 'recollected' and they finally unite in an atmosphere which is ''tranquil'' only in that it is a passive attending upon the event.»
Author: T.S. Eliot
(Critic, Editor, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
atmosphere, attending, concentration, consciously, distortion, formula, happen upon, inexact, passive, recollected, recollection, recollects, resulting, tranquil, tranquillity, unite
«Each of us literally chooses, by his way of attending to things, what sort of universe he shall appear to himself to inhabit»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| Keywords:
appear, attending, chooses, inhabit, inhabits, literally, sort, sort of
«If all the time consumed in attending dinners and luncheons was consumed in some work, the production of this country would be doubled»
Author: Will Rogers
| Keywords:
all the time, attending, consumed, dinners, doubled, luncheon, luncheons, production
«How silver-sweet sound lovers' tongues by night,Like softest music to attending ears!»
«And simple truth miscalled simplicity,And captive good attending captain ill.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
attending, captain, captive, The Captive
«O, this lifeIs nobler than attending for a check,Richer than doing nothing for a bribe,Prouder than rustling in unpaid-for silk.»
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