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«The winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.»
«The only way to win is to fight on the side of your adversaries.»
«There's an enduring American compulsion to be on the side of the angels. Expediency alone has never been an adequate American reason for doing anything. When actions are judged, they go before the bar of God, where Mom and the Flag closely flank His presence.»
Author: Jonathan Raban
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adequate, American flag, closely, compulsion, expediency, flank, flanks, mom, on the side, presence of God, The Angels, the bar
«The number of individuals employed under the Constitution of the United States will be much smaller than the number employed under the particular states. There will consequently be less of personal influence on the side of the former than of the latter.»
«That's the trouble with being me. At this point, nobody gives a damn what my problem is. I could literally have a tumor on the side of my head and they'd be like, 'Yeah, big deal. I'd eat a tumor every morning for the kinda money you're pulling down.'»
Author: Jim Carrey
(Actor)
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damn, give a damn, Head down, kinda, literally, on the side, pulling, The Big Money, tumor, yeah
«The object in life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.»
Author: Marcus Aurelius
| About:
Life
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be on, escape, finding, find oneself, insane, majority, object, oneself, on the side, ranked, ranking, ranks, side
«On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.»
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
(Judge, Jurist)
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Affirmed, affirming, affirms, deny, on the side, on the whole, saints, The Saints, unregenerate
«The question is this -- Is man an ape or an angel? My Lord, I am on the side of the angels. I repudiate with indignation and abhorrence these new fanged theories.»
Author: Benjamin Disraeli
(Novelist, Prime Minister)
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abhorrence, ape, fanged, on the side, repudiate, repudiated, repudiates, Repudiating
«Providence is always on the side of the last reserve»
Author: Napoleon Bonaparte
(Emperor, General, Politician)
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Providence
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on the side
«The wise man always throws himself on the side of his assailants. It is more his interest than it is theirs to find his weak point.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
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assailant, on the side, throws, weak point
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