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«Upon the clothes behind the tenement, That hang like ghosts suspended from the lines, Linking each flat, but to each indifferent, Incongruous and strange the moonlight shines»
«We have women in the military, but they don't put us in the front lines. They don't know if we can fight, if we can kill. I think we can. All the general has to do is walk over to the women and say, 'You see the enemy over there? They say you look fat in those uniforms.'»
Author: Elayne Boosler
(Activist, Comedian)
| Keywords:
fat, front, front line, general, lines, military, The Enemy, The Front, The General, The Military, The Women, uniforms
«To stand at the edge of the sea, to sense the ebb and flow of the tides, to feelthe breath of a mist moving over a great salt marsh, to watch the flight of shore birds that have swept up and down the surf lines of the continents for untold thousands of year, to see the running of the old eels and the young shad to the sea, is to have knowledge of things that are as nearly eternal as any earthly life can be.»
«Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts.»
Author: William Strunk, Jr.
| Keywords:
concise, contain, drawing, draw a line, draw the line, lines, machine, paragraph, paragraphing, paragraphs, sentence, sentences, unnecessary, vigorous
«To read between the lines was easier than to follow the text.»
«We operate with nothing but things which do not exist, with lines, planes, bodies, atoms, divisible time, divisible space -- how should explanation even be possible when we first make everything into an image, into our own image!»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| Keywords:
atoms, divisible, divisible by, explanation, lines, operate, Planes
«True happiness is the full use of your powers along lines of excellence in a life affording scope.»
Author: John Fitzgerald Kennedy
(President)
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Excellence
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affording, excellence, lines, powers, scope
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