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«Time and again these governments have rejected proposals today, and longed for them tomorrow»
Author: Abba Eban
(Minister)
| About:
Government
| Keywords:
longed-for, longed, proposal, proposals, rejected, time and again
«We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the sermon on the mount»
Author: Omar Bradley
(General)
| Keywords:
atom, grasped, mount, rejected, sermon, Sermon on the Mount, The Atom, The Mount
«Most painting in the European tradition was painting the mask. Modern art rejected all that. Our subject matter was the person behind the mask.»
Author: Robert Motherwell
| About:
Painting
| Keywords:
European, mask, rejected, subject matter, The European, The Mask
«One part is absorbed in the blood to compensate for the losses that are constantly taking place through respiration and perspiration, and all the material that Nature cannot use is rejected in the form of excrement.»
Author: Antoine Lavoisier
(Chemist)
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absorbed, compensate, excrement, losses, perspiration, rejected, respiration, taking place
«Popular in our time, unpopular in his. So runs the stereotype of rejected genius.»
«Now my venerated friend, you will perceive that Texas is presented to the union as a bride adorned for her espousal. But, if, now so confident of the union, she should be rejected, her mortification would be indescribable. She has sought the United S»
Author: Sam Houston
(General, Lawyer, Politician)
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adorned, bride, confident, espousal, espousals, indescribable, mortification, presented, rejected, Texas, the union, venerate, venerated
«I will go to a couple of guys if I feel they want help, but I don't like to go to guys when I feel I'm going to be rejected. Any ballplayer, if he ever came up to me and wanted me to help him, I would be there regardless of who he may be.»
«My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.»
«Jesus saith unto them, Did ye never read in the scriptures, The stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner: this is the Lord's doing, and it is marvellous in our eyes? / Therefore say I unto you, The kingdom of God shall be taken from you, and given to a nation bringing forth the fruits thereof.»
«The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected.»
Author: William Somerset Maugham
(Novelist, Playwright, Writer)
| About:
America and Americans
| Keywords:
novel, rejected
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