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«DZUB-NON TRUL-PAR Tibetan word for computer, translates as finger pressing magic picture»
«The piano is the social instrument par excellence... drawing-room furniture, a sign of bourgeois prosperity, the most massive of the devices by which the young are tortured in the name of education and the grown-up in the name of entertainment.»
Author: Jacques Barzun
(Educator)
| Keywords:
bourgeois, devices, drawing, drawing room, entertainment, furniture, Grown up, instrument of torture, massive, par, par excellence, piano, The Piano, The Social
«A lawyer's relationship to justice and wisdom is on a par with a piano tuner's relationship to a concert. He neither composes the music, nor interprets it-he merely keeps the machinery running.»
Author: Lucille Kallen
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Justice,
Law and lawyers,
Wisdom
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composes, concert, concerts, interprets, in concert, Keep On Running, lawyer, machinery, par, piano, pianos, piano tuner, tuner
«Mother considered a press conference on a par with a visit to a cage of cobras.»
Author: Margaret Truman
| About:
Opinions
| Keywords:
cage, cobra, cobras, conference, par, press conference
«Forget your opponents; always play against par.»
«Par is whatever I say it is. I've got one hole that's a par 23 and yesterday I damn near birdied the sucker.»
«Waiting in the throws Is all on par with reading with my eyes closed»
«If we are a metaphor of the universe, the human couple is the metaphor par excellence, the point of intersection of all forces and the seed of all forms. The couple is time recaptured, the return to the time before time.»
Author: Octavio Paz
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couple, intersection, par, par excellence, point of intersection, recapture, recaptured, Return to, the couple, The Return
«The reason the Road Hole is the greatest par 4 in the world is because it's a par 5!»
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