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Letter "F" » fairly
«Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is a little like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian»
Author: Dennis Wholey
| About:
Expectation,
Justice,
World
| Keywords:
attack, bull, expecting, fairly, good person, treat, vegetarian, Vegetarians
«I'm fairly confident that if I died tomorrow, Don would find a way to preserve me until the season was over and he had time for a nice funeral.»
«Genius is an overused word. The world has known only about a half dozen geniuses. I got only fairly near.»
Author: Fritz Kreisler
(Composer, Violinist)
| About:
Genius
| Keywords:
dozen, fairly, geniuses, half a dozen, half dozen, overused
«By the worldly standards of public life, all scholars in their work are of course oddly virtuous. They do not make wild claims, they do not cheat, they do not try to persuade at any cost, they appeal neither to prejudice nor to authority, they are often frank about their ignorance, their disputes are fairly decorous, they do not confuse what is being argued with race, politics, sex or age, they listen patiently to the young and to the old who both know everything. These are the general virtues of scholarship, and they are peculiarly the virtues of science.»
Author: Jacob Bronowski
| Keywords:
appeal, argued, at any cost, cheat, claims, confuse, decorous, disputes, fairly, frank, General Public, oddly, Old Course, patiently, peculiarly, persuade, public works, scholars, scholarship, sex appeal, standards, worldly
«Both of your socks should always be the same color, Or they should at least both be fairly dark»
«As for America, it is the ideal fruit of all your youthful hopes and reforms. Everybody is fairly decent, respectable, domestic, bourgeois, middle-class, and tiresome. There is absolutely nothing to revile except that it's a bore.»
«Habits wear more constantly and with greatest force than reason, which, when we have most need of it, is seldom fairly consulted, and more rarely obeyed»
«Few nations have been so poor as to have but one god. Gods were made so easily, and the raw material cost so little, that generally the god market was fairly glutted and heaven crammed with these phantoms.»
Author: Robert Green Ingersoll
(Orator, Statesman)
| Keywords:
cost, cram, crammed, cramming, crams, fairly, glut, glutted, in the raw, market, material, nations, phantoms, raw, raw material, raw materials, The God, The Phantom, The Phantom of
«Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital.»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| About:
Books
| Keywords:
article, Articles of, capital, constitute, fairly, hundreds, lasts, out in, professional, professional life, setting, the article
«An enterprise, when fairly once begun, should not be left till all that ought is won.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
begun, enterprise, fairly, till, won
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