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«Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds. I may be given credit for having blazed the trail, but when I look at the subsequent developments I feel the credit is due to others rather than to myself.»
Author: Alexander Graham Bell
(Educator, Inventor)
| Keywords:
be given, blazed, blazes, cooperation, credit, developments, discoveries, due, due to, improvements, invariably, involve, subsequent, trail, trailing, trails
«Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in those tiny toilets.»
Author: Cynthia Heimel
| About:
Airplanes
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Airplanes, consumed, distasteful, fantasies, involve, sexual fantasies, toilets, uncomfortable
«Many divorces are not really the result of irreparable injury but involve, instead, a desire on the part of the man or woman to shatter the setup, start out from scratch alone, and make life work for them all over again. They want the risk of disaster, want to touch bottom, see where bottom is, and, coming up, to breathe the air with relief and relish again.»
Author: Edward Hoagland
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all over, breathe, disaster, divorces, from scratch, injury, involve, irreparable, over again, relief, relish, relished, relishes, relishing, scratch, setup, shatter, shatters, start out
«In all things that involve social pressures, if we want to see change we have to force the envelope outwards.»
«I find it extraordinary that a straightforward if inelegant device for ensuring the survival of the species should involve human beings in such emotional turmoil. Does sex have to be taken so seriously?»
«Not only do the children enjoy these games which involve buying and selling with play money, but they learn an essential ingredient of motivation in our society: greed.»
«No government really rooted in limited, parliamentary democracy should have the power to make its citizens fight and kill and die in a war they may oppose, a war which even possibly may be wrong, a war which, in any case, does not involve immediately the peace and freedom of the nation.»
Author: Bill Clinton
(President)
| Keywords:
Die in, involve, in any case, oppose, parliamentary, parliamentary democracy, parliamentary government, Peace and Freedom, rooted
«Crabgrass can grow on bowling balls in airless rooms, and there is no known way to kill it that does not involve nuclear weapons.»
Author: Dave Barry
(Humorist, Writer)
| Keywords:
airless, bowling, bowling ball, crabgrass, involve, no ball, nuclear, nuclear weapon, nuclear weapons, rooms
«Nothing short of self-respect and that justice which is essential to a national character ought to involve us in war; for sure I am, if this country is preserved in tranquillity twenty years longer, it may bid defiance, in a just cause, to any power»
Author: George Washington
(President)
| About:
Justice,
Self-respect
| Keywords:
bid, defiance, for sure, involve, Just Cause, Just War, Long War, national, preserved, self respect, tranquillity
«At one time my only wish was to be a police official. It seemed to me to be an occupation for my sleepless intriguing mind. I had the idea that there, among criminals, were people to fight: clever, vigorous, crafty fellows. Later I realized that it was good that I did not become one, for most police cases involve misery and wretchedness -- not crimes and scandals.»
Author: Soren Kierkegaard
(Philosopher, Theologian)
| Keywords:
intrigue, intriguing, involve, official, scandals, sleepless, vigorous
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