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«The reputation of a man is like his shadow, gigantic when it precedes him, and pygmy in its proportions when it follows»
Author: Charles M. de Talleyrand
| About:
Reputation
| Keywords:
gigantic, precedes, proportions, pygmies, Pygmy
«When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.»
Author: Cynthia Heimel
| About:
Foolishness
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acting, brilliantly, creative, doubt, fool, gigantic, hell, hell on earth, idiot, leap, leapt, leap out, line, microscopically, on earth, So What, The Idiot, thin, thinned, thinner, thinnest, thinning, thins
«There is a gigantic difference between earning a great deal of money and being rich.»
Author: Marlene Dietrich
(Actress)
| Keywords:
a great deal, deal, earning, gigantic, great deal, rich
«It is the Late city that first defies the land, contradicts Nature in the lines of its silhouette, denies all Nature. It wants to be something different from and higher than Nature. These high-pitched gables, these Baroque cupolas, spires, and pinnacles, neither are, nor desire to be, related with anything in Nature. And then begins the gigantic megalopolis, the city-as-world, which suffers nothing beside itself and sets about annihilating the country picture.»
Author: Oswald Spengler
(Philosopher)
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annihilating, baroque, contradicts, cupola, defies, denies, gable, gables, gigantic, high-pitched, lines, megalopolis, pinnacle, pinnacles, pitched, related, silhouette, silhouettes, Something Different, spire, spires, The City
«As an adolescent I was convinced that France would have to go through gigantic trials, that the interest of life consisted in one day rendering her some signal service and that I would have the occasion to do so.»
Author: Charles de Gaulle
| About:
Teenage
| Keywords:
adolescent, adolescents, consisted, gigantic, signal, Trials
«Men hang out their signs indicative of their respective trades: shoemakers hang out a gigantic shoe; jewelers, a monster watch; and the dentist hangs out a gold tooth; but up in the mountains of New Hampshire, God Almighty has hung out a sign to show»
Author: Daniel Webster
(Orator, Senator, Statesman)
| About:
God,
Profession and professionals
| Keywords:
Almighty, gigantic, God Almighty, Hampshire, hangs, hang out, hung, indicative, indicative of, monster, New Hampshire, respective, shoe, shoemaker, shoemakers, tooth, trades
«I have been a gigantic Rolling Stones fan since approximately the Spanish-American War.»
Author: Dave Barry
(Humorist, Writer)
| Keywords:
approximately, fan, gigantic, rolling, Rolling Stone, Rolling Stones, Spanish-American War, Spanish, Spanish American, The Rolling Stones
«Our systems, perhaps, are nothing more than an unconscious apology for our faults /a gigantic scaffolding whose object is to hide from us our favorite sin.»
Author: Henri Frederic Amiel
| Keywords:
apologies, apology, favorite, gigantic, scaffolding, systems, unconscious
«Colonial system, public debts, heavy taxes, protection, commercial wars, etc., these offshoots of the period of manufacture swell to gigantic proportions during the period of infancy of large-scale industry. The birth of the latter is celebrated by a vast, Hero-like slaughter of the innocents.»
Author: Karl Marx
(Philosopher)
| Keywords:
celebrated, colonial, commercial, debts, etc., etc, gigantic, infancy, innocents, large scale, manufacture, public debt, scale, slaughter, slaughtered, swell, tax system
«Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.»
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