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«If men were equally at risk from this condition -- if they knew their bellies might swell as if they were suffering from end-stage cirrhosis, that they would have to go nearly a year without a stiff drink, a cigarette, or even an aspirin, that they would be subject to fainting spells and unable to fight their way onto commuter trains -- then I am sure that pregnancy would be classified as a sexually transmitted disease and abortions would be no more controversial than emergency appendectomies.»
Author: Barbara Ehrenreich
| Keywords:
abortions, aspirin, at risk, bellies, cigarette, cirrhosis, classified, classify, commuter, commuters, controversial, emergency, fainting, onto, pregnancies, pregnancy, sexually, sexually transmitted, sexually transmitted disease, stiff, stiffest, stiffing, subject to, swell, trains, transmitted
«Most vegetarians look so much like the food they eat that they can be classified as cannibals.»
Author: Finley Peter Dunne
(Humorist, Journalist)
| About:
Vegetarianism
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cannibal, cannibals, classified, classify, Vegetarians
«In our country are evangelists and zealots of many different political, economic and religious persuasions whose fanatical conviction is that all thought is divinely classified into two kinds-that which is their own and that which is false and dangerous.»
Author: Robert H. Jackson
| Keywords:
classified, classify, divinely, evangelist, Evangelists, fanatical, persuasions, zealot, zealots
«Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories; those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost.»
Author: Russell Baker
(Columnist, Journalist)
| Keywords:
break down, categories, Category As, classified, classify, inanimate, in the same category, scientifically
«Human beings, for all their pretensions, have a remarkable propensity for lending themselves to classification somewhere within neatly labelled categories. Even the outrageous exceptions may be classified as outrageous exceptions!»
Author: W.J. Reichmann
| Keywords:
categories, classification, classifications, classified, exceptions, labelled, lending, neatly, outrageous, pretensions, propensity, remarkable
«There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.»
Author: Dale Carnegie
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and how, classified, classify, contact, contacts, evaluated, four, fours, look, on all fours, say, Say It, these, ways
«People in places many of us never heard of, whose names we can't pronounce or even spell, are speaking up for themselves. They speak in languages we once classified as ''exotic'' but whose mastery is now essential for our diplomats and businessmen. But what they say is very much the same the world over. They want a decent standard of living. They want human dignity and a voice in their own futures. They want their children to grow up strong and healthy and free.»
Author: Hubert H. Humphrey
(Vice President)
| Keywords:
businessmen, classified, classify, decent, Diplomats, exotic, futures, Human dignity, human voice, languages, mastery, pronounce, spell, standard, their own language, very much
«A teacher who can arouse a feeling for one single good action, for one single good poem, accomplishes more than he who fills our memory with rows and rows of natural objects, classified with name and form»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Teachers and teaching
| Keywords:
accomplishes, arouse, arousing, classified, classify, fills, for one, Good poem, natural action, objects, poem, rowed, rows
«But there are advantages to being elected President. The day after I was elected, I had my high school grades classified Top Secret.»
Author: Ronald Reagan
(President)
| Keywords:
advantages, classified, classify, elected, grades, grade school, Higher Grade, high school, The Day After, Top Secret
«It cannot in the opinion of His Majesty's Government be classified as slavery in the extreme acceptance of the word without some risk of terminological inexactitude.»
Author: Winston Churchill
(Author, Orator, Prime Minister)
| Keywords:
acceptance, classified, classify, extreme, His Majesty, inexactitude, majesty, slavery, terminological
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