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«Any language is necessarily a finite system applied with different degrees of creativity to an infinite variety of situations, and most of the words and phrases we use are ''prefabricated'' in the sense that we don't coin new ones every time we speak.»
«In ten phrases, the ten commandments express the essential of life. And these three words-liberty, equality, and fraternity-do just as much. Millions of people have died for those ideals.»
Author: Krzysztof Kieslowski
| Keywords:
Commandments, fraternities, fraternity, have died, phrases, Ten Commandments, These Three, The Ten, The Ten Commandments
«Friends, both the imaginary ones you build for yourself out of phrases taken from a living writer, or real ones from college, and relatives, despite all the waste of ceremony and fakery and the fact that out of an hour of conversation you may have only five minutes in which the old entente reappears, are the only real means for foreign ideas to enter your brain.»
Author: Nicholson Baker
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Brain may, ceremony, despite, entente, fakery, imaginary friend, phrases, reappear, reappeared, reappears, relatives
«In the phrases of songs and poems bread is gold, it is the motherland, it is the hard work of the masses, it is life itself.»
«If I had a large amount of money I should found a hospital for those whose grip upon the world is so tenuous that they can be severely offended by words and phrases yet remain all unoffended by the injustice, violence and oppression that howls daily»
Author: Stephen Fry
| About:
Money
| Keywords:
amount of money, grip, gripping, hospital, howls, offended, oppression, phrases, severely, tenuous, unoffending
«Every revolutionary idea seems to evoke three stages of reaction. They may be summed up by the phrases: 1- It's completely impossible. 2- It's possible, but it's not worth doing. 3- I said it was a good idea all along.»
Author: Arthur C. Clarke
(Writer)
| Keywords:
all along, evoke, evoked, evokes, evoking, good idea, phrases, reaction, revolutionaries, revolutionary, stages, summed
«Genuine ignorance is... profitable because it is likely to be accompanied by humility, curiosity, and open mindedness; whereas ability to repeat catch-phrases, cant terms, familiar propositions, gives the conceit of learning and coats the mind with varnish waterproof to new ideas.»
Author: John Dewey
(Educator, Philosopher, Psychologist)
| Keywords:
accompanied, cant, canted, canting, cants, catch phrase, coats, conceit, genuine, phrases, profitable, propositions, The Cant, varnish, varnished, waterproof
«But for a few phrases from his letters and an odd line or two of his verse, the poet walks gagged through his own biography.»
«But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy.»
«Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidise it»
Author: Ronald Reagan
(President)
| About:
Economics,
Government
| Keywords:
economies, economy, Economy of, moves, moving, phrased, phrases, phrasing, regulate, regulates, regulating, stops, subsidise, summed, tax
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