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Letter "F" » file
«[He had] a cheekiness bordering at times on nail-file abrasive.»
«If you have an anecdote from one source, you file it away. If you hear it again, it may be true. Then the more times you hear it the less likely it is to be true.»
«In masks outrageous and austere The years go by in single file; But none has merited my fear, And none has quite escaped my smile»
Author: Elinor Wylie
| Keywords:
austere, escaped, file, go by, masks, merited, outrageous, single file
«Desolation is a file, and the endurance of darkness is preparation for great light.»
Author: St. John of the Cross
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desolation, endurance, file, filed, files, file in, filing, preparation
«If you file your waste-paper basket for fifty years, you have a public library.»
Author: Tony Benn
(Politician)
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basket, fifty, file, filed, files, file in, filing, library, public libraries, public library, waste-paper basket, waste basket, waste paper
«Distributed file systems are a cruel hoax.»
«Nostalgia is a file that removes the rough edges from the good old days.»
Author: Doug Larson
| About:
Nostalgia
| Keywords:
edges, file, nostalgia, removes, the good old days
«POVERTY, n. A file provided for the teeth of the rats of reform. The number of plans for its abolition equals that of the reformers who suffer from it, plus that of the philosophers who know nothing about it. Its victims are distinguished by possession of all the virtues and by their faith in leaders seeking to conduct them into a prosperity where they believe these to be unknown.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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distinguished, equals, file, plus, reformers
«He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| About:
Ignorance,
Intelligence,
Military
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already, brain, contempt, cord, corded, earned, file, filed, files, file in, filing, given, has-been, him, joyfully, large, Marches, march on, mistake, music, rank, ranked, rankest, ranking, rank and file, spinal, spinal cord, suffice, sufficed, suffices, sufficing
«for those who would joyously march in rank and file, they have already earned my contempt, for they were given a large brain by accident when a spinal chord would have sufficed.»
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