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Letter "O" » official
«The highest patriotism is not a blind acceptance of official policy, but a love of one's country deep enough to call her to a higher plain»
Author: George McGovern
(Politician)
| About:
Patriotism
| Keywords:
acceptance, official, One Country, patriotism, plain, policy
«There is nothing in the Constitution that authorizes or makes it the official duty of a president to have anything to do with criminal activities.»
Author: Sam Ervin
(Senator)
| About:
Action,
Constitution
| Keywords:
activities, authorize, authorized, authorizes, authorizing, criminal, official
«The de facto censorship which leaves so many Americans functionally illiterate about the history of US foreign affairs may be all the more effective because it is not official, heavy-handed or conspiratorial, but woven artlessly into the fabric of education and media. No conspiracy is needed.»
Author: William Blum
| Keywords:
American history, artlessly, censorship, conspiracy, conspiratorial, de facto, fabric, facto, foreign affairs, functionally, functionally illiterate, handed, heavy-handed, illiterate, media, official, woven
«The Soviet Union, which has complained recently about alleged anti-Soviet themes in American advertising, lodged an official protest this week against the Ford Motor Company's new campaign: 'Hey you stinking fat Russian, get off my Ford Escort.'»
Author: Dennis Miller
(Actor, Comedian)
| Keywords:
advertising campaign, alleged, American union, campaign, complained, escort, escorted, escorting, escorts, ford, Ford Motor, Ford Motor Company, get off, lodged, official, protest, recently, Russian, soviet, Soviet Union, stinking, themes, This Week
«We say that someone occupies an official position, whereas it is the official position that occupies him»
«We were that generation called ''silent,'' but we were silent neither, as some thought, because we shared the period's official optimism nor, as others thought, because we feared its official repression. We were silent because the exhilaration of social action seemed to many of us just one more way of escaping the personal, of masking for a while that dread of the meaningless which was man's fate.»
Author: Joan Didion
(Journalist, Novelist)
| Keywords:
dread, escaping, exhilaration, for a while, Just One, masking, official, repression, social action
«The uncontested absurdities of today are the accepted slogans of tomorrow. They come to be accepted by degrees, by dint of constant pressure on one side and constant retreat on the other - until one day when they are suddenly declared to be the country's official ideology.»
«ZANZIBARI, n. An inhabitant of the Sultanate of Zanzibar, off the eastern coast of Africa. The Zanzibaris, a warlike people, are best known in this country through a threatening diplomatic incident that occurred a few years ago. The American consul at the capital occupied a dwelling that faced the sea, with a sandy beach between. Greatly to the scandal of this official's family, and against repeated remonstrances of the official himself, the people of the city persisted in using the beach for bathing. One day a woman came down to the edge of the water and was stooping to remove her attire (a pair of sandals) when the consul, incensed beyond restraint, fired a charge of bird-shot into the most conspicuous part of her person. Unfortunately for the existing _entente cordiale_ between two great nations, she was the Sultana.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
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«We must beware of trying to build a society in which nobody counts for anything except a politician or an official, a society where enterprise gains no reward and thrift no privileges»
Author: Winston Churchill
(Author, Orator, Prime Minister)
| About:
Politicians
| Keywords:
counts, enterprise, for anything, gains, official, politician, privileges
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