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«Inflation is like sin; every government denounces it and every government practices it»
Author: Frederick Leith-Ross
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Inflation
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denounce, denounced, denounces, denouncing, government, inflation, like sin, practices, sin
«I await the hour when a journalist can be driven from the press room for venal practices, as a minister can be unfrocked, or a lawyer disbarred.»
Author: John Haynes Holmes
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await, awaited, driven, journalist, lawyer, minister, practices, the press, venal
«[Ken] Kesey practices what has come to be known as gonzo journalism. The reporter, often intoxicated, fails to get the story but delivers instead a stylishly bizarre account that mocks conventional journalism.»
Author: R. Z. Sheppard
| About:
Journalism
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bizarre, conventional, delivers, Gonzo, intoxicated, ken, Ken Kesey, Kesey, mocks, practices, reporter, The Reporter
«If animals play, this is because play is useful in the struggle for survival; because play practices and so perfects the skills needed in adult life»
«A man practices the art of adventure when he breaks the chain of routine and renews his life through reading new books, traveling to new places, making new friends, taking up new hobbies and adopting new viewpoints»
«Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim. It is, one is told, the unforgivable sin, but it is a sin the corrupt or evil man never practices. He always has hope. He never reaches the freezing-point of knowing absolute failur»
Author: Graham Greene
| About:
Despair
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freezing, freezing point, practices, unforgivable
«I have offered teachings and practices in 35 countries, and yet in Vietnam, my books are still banned»
Author: Thich Nhat Hanh
(Activist, Monk, Writer)
| Keywords:
ban, banned, in Vietnam, practices, teachings, Vietnam
«DAWN, n. The time when men of reason go to bed. Certain old men prefer to rise at about that time, taking a cold bath and a long walk with an empty stomach, and otherwise mortifying the flesh. They then point with pride to these practices as the cause of their sturdy health and ripe years; the truth being that they are hearty and old, not because of their habits, but in spite of them. The reason we find only robust persons doing this thing is that it has killed all the others who have tried it.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
bath, go to bed, hearty, Long Walk, mortified, mortifies, mortify, mortifying, practices, ripe, robust, sturdy, with pride
«I am convinced that some political and social activities and practices of the Catholic organizations are detrimental and even dangerous for the community as a whole, here and everywhere. I mention here only the fight against birth control at a time w»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
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activities, as a whole, birth control, Catholic, detrimental, mention, organizations, political organization, practices, social activity, social control, social organization, The Catholic
«It is easy for a man who sits idle at home, and has nobody to please but himself, to ridicule or censure the common practices of mankind»
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