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«I never felt settled or calm. You can't really commit to life when you feel that.»
«It was settled by the Constitution, the laws, and the whole practice of the government that the entire executive power is vested in the President of the United States»
Author: Andrew Jackson
(President)
| About:
America and Americans,
Constitution,
Government,
Law and lawyers,
Power
| Keywords:
Constitution of the United, Constitution of the United States, Executive power, government of the United, government of the United States, practice of law, President of, President of the, President of the United, President of the United States, settled, United States Constitution, United States government, vest, vested, vests
«I never saw an oft-transplanted tree, Nor yet an oft-removed family, That throve so well as those that settled be»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
| Keywords:
family tree, oft, removed, settled, throve, transplant, transplanted, transplanting, transplants
«I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.»
«PROJECTILE, n. The final arbiter in international disputes. Formerly these disputes were settled by physical contact of the disputants, with such simple arguments as the rudimentary logic of the times could supply --the sword, the spear, and so forth. With the growth of prudence in military affairs the projectile came more and more into favor, and is now held in high esteem by the most courageous. Its capital defect is that it requires personal attendance at the point of propulsion.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
and so forth, arbiter, attendance, courageous, defect, disputant, disputants, disputes, formerly, International, international affairs, in attendance, physical contact, projectile, propulsion, prudence, rudimentary, settled, spear, The Times
«I believe that all important matters have to be settled here, not in the clouds somewhere after we kick off»
Author: Billy Joel
(Pianist, Singer, Song Writer)
| Keywords:
all important, kick off, settled, The Clouds
«Mr Podsnap settled that whatever he put behind him he put out of existence . . . Mr Podsnap had even acquired a peculiar flourish of his right arm in often clearing the world of its most difficult problems, by sweeping them behind him.»
Author: Charles Dickens
| Keywords:
settled
«No question is ever settled; Until it is settled right»
Author: Ella Wheeler Wilcox
| Keywords:
settled
«It was in making education not only common to all, but in some sense compulsory on all, that the destiny of the free republics of America was practically settled»
Author: James Russell Lowell
(Critic, Diplomat, Editor, Essayist, Poet)
| About:
America and Americans,
Common sense,
Destiny,
Education
| Keywords:
Compulsory education, practically, settled
«O our Lord! surely I have settled a part of my offspring in a valley unproductive of fruit near Thy Sacred House, our Lord! that they may keep up prayer; therefore make the hearts of some people yearn towards them and provide them with fruits; haply»
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