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«Only government can take perfectly good paper, cover it with perfectly good ink and make the combination worthless.»
Author: Milton Friedman
(Economist)
| Keywords:
combination, cover, ink, inked, inking, paper, perfectly, worthless
«The ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr»
«The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible.»
Author: Vladimir Nabokov
(Author, Critic, Novelist)
| Keywords:
blank, clamoring, ink, miraculous, pages
«Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know.»
«The palest ink is better than the sharpest memory»
«The ink of the scholar and the blood of a martyr are of equal value in heaven.»
«PREDESTINATION, n. The doctrine that all things occur according to programme. This doctrine should not be confused with that of foreordination, which means that all things are programmed, but does not affirm their occurrence, that being only an implication from other doctrines by which this is entailed. The difference is great enough to have deluged Christendom with ink, to say nothing of the gore. With the distinction of the two doctrines kept well in mind, and a reverent belief in both, one may hope to escape perdition if spared.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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«The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.»
Author: George Orwell
(Essayist, Novelist)
| About:
Insincerity,
Language
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aims, as it were, cuttlefish, declared, exhausted, gap, gaps, idiom, idioms, ink, insincerity, instinctively, squirt, squirted, squirting, squirts
«Sometimes my feelings are so hot that I have to take the pen and put them out on paper to keep them from setting me afire inside; then all that ink and labor are wasted because I can't print the results»
«The Negro will only be truly free when he reaches down to the inner depths of his own being and signs with the pen and ink of assertive selfhood his own emancipation proclamation.»
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Baptist Minister, Civil-Rights Leader)
| Keywords:
assertive, depths, emancipation, ink, Negro, pen, proclamation, proclamations, reaches, signs
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