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«The much vaunted male logic isn?t logical, because they display prejudices - against half the human race - that are considered prejudices according to any dictionary definition.»
Author: Eva Figes
| Keywords:
dictionary, dictionary definition, display, logical, vaunt, vaunted, vaunts
«Show class, have pride, and display character. If you do, winning takes care of itself.»
«The value of government to the people it serves is in direct relationship to the interest citizens themselves display in the affairs of state»
Author: William Scranton
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Government,
Relationships
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display, serves, state of affairs
«This, then, is held to be the duty of the man of wealth: First, to set an example of modest, unostentatious living, shunning display or extravagance; to provide moderately for the legitimate wants of those dependent upon him; and, after doing so, to consider all surplus revenues which come to him simply as trust funds, which he is called upon to administer, and strictly bound as a matter of duty to administer in the manner which, in his judgment, is best calculated to produce the most beneficial results for the community /the man of wealth thus becoming the mere trustee and agent for his poorer brethren, bringing to their service his superior wisdom, experience and ability to administer, doing for them better than they would or could do for themselves.»
Author: Andrew Carnegie
(Industrialist, Philanthropist)
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administer, agent, An example, An example of, beneficial, brethren, calculated, called upon, community service, dependent, display, legitimate, moderately, modest, poorer, revenues, shunning, strictly, trustee, trustees, trust fund, unostentatious
«One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.»
Author: Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
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amended, amending, disclosure, disclosures, display, evidences, excel, gently, surest
«President Bush remained undeterred by the massive display of American opposition, even though much of it came from the hundreds of thousands of voters who supported him by voting for Nader.»
Author: Jon Stewart
(Actor, Comedian)
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American President, display, hundreds, massive, Nader, opposition, President Bush, remained, supported, undeterred, voters, voting
«The sage wears clothes of coarse cloth but carries jewels in his bosom; He knows himself but does not display himself; He loves himself but does not hold himself in high esteem»
«So long as the laws remain such as they are today, employ some discretion: loud opinion forces us to do so; but in privacy and silence let us compensate ourselves for that cruel chastity we are obliged to display in public.»
Author: Marquis De Sade
(Novelist)
| Keywords:
chastity, compensate, compensated, compensates, compensating, cruel, discretion, display, employ, force of law, in public, loud, obliged, obliges, obliging, privacy, such as
«There is nothing that exasperates people more than a display of superior ability or brilliance in conversation. They seem pleased at the time, but their envy makes them curse the conversationalist in their heart.»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
conversationalist, display, exasperated, exasperates, exasperating
«The sparrow-hawk loves the rainwater, falling in torrents; the king loves to see his wealth on display.»
Author: Sri Guru Granth Sahib
| Keywords:
display, rainwater, sparrow, sparrow hawk, The Sparrow, torrents
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