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Letter "A" » Avenue of
«I was walking down fifth avenue today and I found a wallet, and I was gonna keep it, rather than return it, but I thought: well, if I lost a hundred and fifty dollars, how would I feel? And I realized I would want to be taught a lesson.»
«The Park Avenue of poodles and polished brass; it is cab country, tip-town, glassville, a window-washer's paradise.»
Author: Gay Talese
| Keywords:
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«The avenues in my neighborhood are Pride, Covetousness and Lust; the cross streets are Anger, Gluttony, Envy and Sloth. I live over on Sloth, and the style on our street is to avoid the other thoroughfares.»
Author: John Chancellor
| Keywords:
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«All sport... is one of the few activities where young people can proceed along traditional avenues, where objectives are clear, where the desire to win is not only permissible, but encouraged.»
Author: Spiro T. Agnew
(Vice President)
| Keywords:
activities, avenues, Avenue of, encouraged, objectives, proceed, The Avenue, traditional
«Let the spirit out - Discard all thoughts of reward, all hopes of praise and fears of blame, all awareness of one's bodily self. And, finally closing the avenues of sense perception, let the spirit out, as it will.»
Author: Bruce Lee
(Actor)
| About:
Life,
Peace,
Truth,
Wisdom
| Keywords:
avenues, Avenue of, bodily, closing, discard, discarding, perception, self awareness, The Avenue
«The sweetest and most inoffensive path of life leads through the avenues of science and learning; and whoever can either remove any obstruction in this way, or open up any new prospect, ought, so far, to be esteemed a benefactor to mankind»
Author: David Hume
(Economist, Essayist, Historian, Philosopher)
| About:
Mankind
| Keywords:
avenues, Avenue of, benefactor, benefactors, esteemed, inoffensive, obstruction, obstructions, open up, prospect, remove, sweetest, The Avenue
«Like art and politics, gangsterism is a very important avenue of assimilation into society.»
Author: E. L. Doctorow
(Author, Editor)
| Keywords:
assimilation, avenue, avenues, Avenue of, The Avenue
«I'm yet another resource-consuming kid in an overpopulated planet, raised to an alarming extent by Hollywood and Madison Avenue, poised with my cynical and alienated peers to take over the world when you're old and weak.»
«Along the avenue of cypresses, / All in their scarlet cloaks and surplices / Of linen, go the chanting choristers, / The priests in gold and black, the villagers.»
Author: D.H. Lawrence
(Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
Avenue of, chants, chorister, choristers, cloaks, cypress, cypresses, The Avenue, villager, villagers
«This is going to be like the 'Bridges of Madison Avenue', a very brief affair I'll write about in sappy letters to my grandchildren.»
Author: Sarah Jessica Parker
(Actress)
| Keywords:
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