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«You really don't want a president who is a football fan. Football combines the worst features of American life. It is violence punctuated by committee meetings.»
Author: George F. Will
| About:
Football
| Keywords:
American Life, combines, committee, committee meeting, fan, features, meetings, punctuate, punctuated
«The serial number of a human specimen is the face, that accidental and unrepeatable combination of features. It reflects neither character nor soul, nor what we call the self. The face is only the serial number of a specimen.»
Author: Milan Kundera
(Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
accidental, features, reflects, serial, specimen, specimens, unrepeatable
«Those who in principle oppose birth control are either incapable of arithmetic or else in favor of war, pestilence and famine as permanent features of human life»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
famine, features, in principle, oppose, pestilence
«We can never have enough of nature. We must be refreshed by the sight of inexhaustible vigor, vast and titanic features, the sea-coast with its wrecks, the wilderness with its living and its decaying trees, the thunder-cloud, and the rain.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
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cloud, coast, coasting, Coast to Coast, decaying, features, inexhaustible, like thunder, rain cloud, refreshed, refreshes, refreshing, sea-coast, The Sea, the Wilderness, the Wrecks, thunder, thundered, thundering, titanic, vast, vigor, wilderness, wildernesses, wrecking, wrecks
«The features of our face are hardly more than gestures which have become permanent»
«Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel until the emergency comes, until self-preservation strikes its jarring gong - these are the features which constitute the»
Author: Winston Churchill
(Author, Orator, Prime Minister)
| About:
Action,
Foresight,
Risk-taking
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clear-thinking, constitute, counsel, emergency, features, foresight, gong, gongs, jarring, jars, preservation, self preservation, strikes, The Emergency, unwillingness
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