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«What has destroyed every previous civilization has been the tendency to the unequal distribution of wealth and power»
Author: Henry George
| Keywords:
been, civilization, Civilization I, destroyed, distribution, every, has-been, power, previous, tendency, unequal, unequal to, wealth
«Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives. The English reading public explains the reason why.»
Author: James Joyce
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devised, devises, devising, English, explains, ingenious, previous, the English, torture
«The trouble with most Englishwomen is that they will dress as if they had been a mouse in a previous incarnation they do not want to attract attention.»
Author: Dame Edith Sitwell
(Biographer, Critic, Poet)
| About:
Clothes,
Trouble
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attract, Englishwoman, Englishwomen, incarnation, previous, the Incarnation
«The reason people blame things on previous generations is that there's only one other choice.»
«Ximinez: Now, old woman -- you are accused of heresy on three counts -- heresy by thought, heresy by word, heresy by deed, and heresy by action -- *four* counts. Do you confess?Wilde: I don't understand what I'm accused of. Ximinez: Ha! Then we'll make you understand! Biggles! Fetch...THE CUSHIONS!Biggles: Here they are, lord.Ximinez: Now, old lady -- you have one last chance. Confess the heinous sin of heresy, reject the works of the ungodly -- *two* last chances. And you shall be free -- *three* last chances. You have three last chances, the nature of which I have divulged in my previous utterance.Wilde: I don't know what you're talking about.Ximinez: Right! If that's the way you want it -- Cardinal! Poke her with the soft cushions!Ximinez: Confess! Confess! Confess!Biggles: It doesn't seem to be hurting her, lord.Ximinez: Have you got all the stuffing up one end?Biggles: Yes, lord.»
Author: Monty Python
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accused, cardinal, Cardinals, confess, counts, cushion, cushioned, cushions, deed, divulge, divulged, fetch, fetching, Ha Ha Ha, heinous, heresy, hurting, old lady, old woman, poke, poked, pokes, poking, previous, reject, stuffing, The Cardinals, The Works, ungodly, utterance, Wilde
«The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions about our centrality in the cosmos.»
Author: Stephen Jay Gould
| About:
Revolution,
Science
| Keywords:
arrogance, centrality, convictions, cosmos, dethronement, feature, include, pedestal, pedestals, previous, revolutions, scientific
«Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion.»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
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adopted, previous, projects
«There is nothing noble in being superior to some other person. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self.»
Author: Proverb
| About:
Nobility
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nobility, noble, previous, some other, superior, There Is Nothing, the true
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