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Letter "C" » checks
«Ann Richards on How to Be a Good Republican: 1. You have to believe that the nation's current 8-year prosperity was due to the work of Ronald Reagan and George Bush, but yesterday's gasoline prices are all Clinton's fault. 2. You have to believe that those privileged from birth achieve success all on their own. 3. You have to be against all government programs, but expect Social Security checks on time.»
Author: Ann Richards
(Governor, Politician)
| Keywords:
Ann, Ann Richards, checks, Clinton, due to, gasoline, George, George Bush, in due time, on their own, on time, prices, privileged, programs, Reagan, Reagans, Republican, Richards, Ronald, Ronald Reagan, Social Security, The Nation
«Canceled checks will be to future historians and cultural anthropologists what the Dead Sea Scrolls and hieroglyphics are to us.»
Author: Brent Staples
| Keywords:
anthropologist, canceled, checks, cultural, Dead Sea, Dead Sea scrolls, hieroglyphic, hieroglyphics, Historians, scroll, scrolls
«As well expect Nature to answer to your human values as to come into your house and sit in a chair. The economy of nature, its checks and balances, its measurements of competing life-all this is its great marvel and has an ethic of its own.»
Author: Henry Beston
| Keywords:
balances, chair, checks, Economy of, ethic, marvel, measurement, measurements, sit in
«A reader who quarrels with postulates, who dislikes Hamlet because he does not believe that there are ghosts or that people speak in pentameters, clearly has no business in literature. He cannot distinguish fiction from fact, and belongs in the same category as the people who send checks to radio stations for the relief of suffering heroines in soap operas.»
Author: Northrop Frye
| Keywords:
category, Category As, checks, dislikes, distinguish, ghosts, hamlet, Hamlets, in the same category, operas, pentameter, pentameters, postulate, postulates, quarrels, soap, soap opera, soap operas, stations
«Ours is a government of checks and balances. The Mafia and crooked businessmen make out checks, and the politicians and other compromised officials improve their bank balances.»
Author: Steve Allen
(Actor, Comic, Composer, Writer)
| Keywords:
balances, businessmen, checks, checks and balances, compromised, crooked, government officials, make out, officials
«Don't ever forget two things I'm going to tell you. One, don't believe everything that's written about you. Two, don't pick up too many checks.»
«Scientific progress makes moral progress a necessity; for if man's power is increased, the checks that restrain him from abusing it must be strengthened»
Author: Madame de Stael
| About:
Progress,
Science
| Keywords:
abuse of power, abusing, checks, increased, restrain, scientific, Scientific progress, strengthened
«Many plays-certainly mine-are like blank checks. The actors and directors put their own signatures on them.»
Author: Thornton Wilder
| About:
Actors and acting,
Managers
| Keywords:
actors, blank, blanked, blanker, blanks, checks, directors, plays, signatures
«Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
account, bank, checking account, checks, draw, no-account, resolutions
«Ridicule often checks what is absurd, and fully as often smothers that which is noble.»
Author: Sir Walter Scott
(Biographer, Historian, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
absurd, checks, ridicule, smothered, smothering, smothers
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