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Letter "T" » table
«Traveling is all very well if you can get home at night. I would be willing to go around the world if I came back in time to light the candles and set the table for supper.I cannot conceivably influence the world's destiny, but I can make my own life more worthwhile. I can give some help to some people; that is not vital to all the world's problems and yet I think if everyone did just that, we might see quite a world in our time!»
Author: Gladys Taber
| Keywords:
back in time, candles, conceivably, go around, In Our Time, in time, my supper, quite a, set back, supper, suppers, table, traveling, very well, vital, worthwhile
«True luck consists not in holding the best of the cards at the table; luckiest he who knows just when to rise and go home»
«When you get real old, honey, you realizre there are certain things that just don't matter anymore. You lay it all on the table. There's a saying: Only little children and old folks tell the truth.»
«When I was research head of General Motors and wanted a problem solved, I'd place a table outside the meeting room with a sign: LEAVE SLIDE RULES HERE! If I didn't do that, I'd find some engineer reaching for his slide rule. Then he'd be on his feet saying, ''Boss you can't do that.''»
Author: Charles F. Kettering
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be on, boss, engineer, General Motors, meeting place, motoring, motors, reaching, research, slid, slide, slide rule, sliding, solved, table
«We do NOT know the past in chronological sequence. It may be convenient to lay it out anesthetized on the table with dates pasted on here and there, but what we know we know by ripples and spirals eddying out from us and from our own time.»
Author: Ezra Pound
(Critic, Editor, Poet, Translator)
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anesthetized, chronological, chronological sequence, convenient, dates, here and there, paste, pasted, ripple, rippled, ripples, rippling, sequence, spiral, spiraling, spirals, table, The Sequence
«The other night I ate at a real nice family restaurant. Every table had an argument going.»
Author: George Carlin
(Actor, Author, Comedian)
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argument, Ate, family, Nice, restaurant, table, The Restaurant
«When the evening is spread out against the sky / Like a patient etherised upon a table.»
Author: T.S. Eliot
(Critic, Editor, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
evening, patient, spread, spread out, table
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