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Letter "D" » dig
«Sometimes you really dig a girl, the moment you kiss her, And then you get distracted by her older sister»
«Those big-shot writers could never dig the fact that there are more salted peanuts consumed than caviar»
«Phoebe: Come on Ross, you're a paleontologist, dig a little deeper.»
«This potent herb do I dig out, it draws toward me the eve, causes (love's) tears. It brings back him who has gone to a distance, rejoices him that approaches me.»
«LOGIC, n. The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding. The basic of logic is the syllogism, consisting of a major and a minor premise and a conclusion --thus:_Major Premise_: Sixty men can do a piece of work sixty times as quickly as one man._Minor Premise_: One man can dig a posthole in sixty seconds; therefore --_Conclusion_: Sixty men can dig a posthole in one second. This may be called the syllogism arithmetical, in which, by combining logic and mathematics, we obtain a double certainty and are twice blessed.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
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«Thatch your roof before rainy weather; dig your well before you become parched with thirst»
«The best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.»
«Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.»
Author: Marcus Aurelius
| About:
Self-confidence,
Self-knowledge
| Keywords:
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«There comes a time in every rightly constructed boy's life that he has a raging desire to go somewhere and dig for hidden treasure»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| About:
Boys,
Life
| Keywords:
constructed, dig, raging, rightly
«Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages.»
Author: Michel de Montaigne
(Philosopher, Writer)
| About:
Law and lawyers,
Liberty,
Youth
| Keywords:
criminal law, dig, dungeons, educational, strict
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