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Letter "C" » current
«Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. When we really listen to people there is an alternating current, and this recharges us so that we never get tired of each other. We are constantly being re-created.»
Author: Brenda Ueland
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Force,
Listening
| Keywords:
alternate, alternating, alternating current, current, re-create, re-created, tired of
«Neither current events nor history show that the majority rule, or ever did rule.»
«In this age of electronic money, investors are no longer seduced by a financial 'dance of a thousand veils.' Only hard and accurate information on reserves, current accounts, and monetary and fiscal conditions will keep capital from fleeing precipitously at the first sign of trouble.»
Author: Larry Summers
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accounts, accurate, age of, capital, conditions, current, current account, electronic, financial, fiscal, fleeing, Information Age, investor, investors, monetary, precipitously, reserves, seduced, seduces, seducing, veils
«I perceived that to express those impressions, to write that essential book, which is the only true one, a great writer does not, in the current meaning of the word, invent it, but, since it exists already in each one of us, interprets it. The duty and the task of a writer are those of an interpreter.»
Author: Marcel Proust
(Author, Novelist)
| About:
Books,
Writing
| Keywords:
current, express, impressions, interpreter, interprets, invent, One of Us, perceived, The Current, The Task, The Word, writer
«Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift or trust bestowed on the individual by the state pending good behavior»
«Glass of brandy and water! That is the current but not the appropriate name: ask for a glass of liquid fire and distilled damnation»
Author: Robert Hall
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appropriate, ask for, brandies, brandy, current, damnation, distill, distilled, distilling, distills, Fire and Water, liquid, liquids, The Current
«Morality is the custom of one's country and the current feeling of one's peers»
Author: Samuel Butler
| About:
Morality
| Keywords:
current, custom, One Country, peering, peers, The Current
«Most reformers wore rubber boots and stood on glass when God sent a current of Commonsense through the Universe»
«In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.»
«Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.»
Author: Virginia Woolf
(Writer)
| Keywords:
bags, current, gas, Mean Business, puncture, punctured, punctures, Seeds, The Current, The Seeds
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