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«Culture is a little like dropping an Alka-Seltzer into a glass-you don't see it, but somehow it does something.»
Author: Hans Magnus Enzensberger
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Culture
| Keywords:
alka, Alka Seltzer, dropping, droppings, seltzer
«Statistics indicate that, as a result of overwork, modern executives are dropping like flies on the nation's golf courses.»
«Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.»
Author: Don Marquis
(Columnist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet, Writer)
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canyon, canyons, dropping, droppings, drop down, echo, Grand Canyon, publishing, verse, volume
«His cheeks are as a bed of spices, as sweet flowers: his lips like lilies, dropping sweet smelling myrrh.»
«Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies. By dropping golden beads near a snake, a crow once managed To have a passer-by kill the snake for the beads.»
«Death is the dropping of the flower that the fruit may swell.»
Author: Henry Ward Beecher
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dropping
«There are no little events with the heart. It magnifies everything; it places in the same scales the fall of an empire of fourteen years and the dropping of a woman's glove, and almost always the glove weighs more than the empire.»
Author: Honore de Balzac
(Novelist)
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Events
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dropping, fourteen, glove, magnifies, scales, The Empire, weighs
«Sabrina fair, / Listen where thou art sitting/ Under the glassy, cool, translucent wave, / In twisted braids of lilies knitting / The loose train of thy amber-dropping hair.»
«Three things drive a man out of doors: smoke, dropping water, and a shrew»
«From reveries so airy, from the toil / Of dropping buckets into empty wells, / And growing old in drawing nothing up.»
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