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Letter "P" » post
«Post-Watergate morality, by which anything left private is taken as presumptive evidence of wrongdoing.»
Author: Charles Krauthammer
| Keywords:
post, presumptive, The Watergate, Watergate, wrongdoing, wrongdoings
«My mother speaks of my step being a source of life-long pain to her, that it is a living death, etc. By the same post I had several letters from anxious relatives, telling me that it was my duty to come home and thus ease my mother's anxiety.»
«Saying the Washington Post is just a newspaper is like saying Rasputin was just a country priest.»
«I think the adjective ''post-modernist'' really means ''mannerist.'' Books about books is fun but frivolous.»
Author: Angela Carter
(Novelist, Writer)
| Keywords:
adjective, adjectives, frivolous, modernist, modernists, post
«Post-modernism has cut off the present from all futures. The daily media add to this by cutting off the past. Which means that critical opinion is often orphaned in the present.»
Author: John Berger
(Painter)
| Keywords:
add to, cutting off, cut off, futures, modernism, orphaned, post
«Mail your packages early so the post office can lose them in time for Christmas.»
Author: Johnny Carson
(Host)
| About:
Funny,
Inefficiency,
sarcastic
| Keywords:
mail, packages, post, post office, The Post Office
«One of the things the government can't do is run anything. The only things our government runs are the post office and the railroads, and both of them are bankrupt.»
Author: Lee Iacocca
| About:
Government
| Keywords:
bankrupt, bankrupts, post, post office, railroads, The Post Office
«People who live in the post-totalitarian system know only too well that the question of whether one or several political parties are in power, and how these parties define and label themselves, is of far less importance than the question of whether or not it is possible to live like a human being.»
Author: Vaclav Havel
(Playwright, President)
| Keywords:
as far as possible, label, only too, Parties, party system, political parties, political power, political system, political systems, post, several, totalitarian
«I notice increasing reluctance on the part of marketing executives to use judgment; they are coming to rely too much on research, and they use it as a drunkard uses a lamp post for support, rather than for illumination.»
Author: David Ogilvy
| About:
Judgement,
Marketing
| Keywords:
drunkard, executives, illumination, illuminations, increasing, lamp, marketing, post, reluctance, rely, research
«Lincoln marked the half-way post on the road to the sewers (in presidents)»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| Keywords:
Lincoln, marked, on the road, post, Presidents, sewers
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