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Letter "T" » tops
«The only Zen you find on tops of mountains is the Zen you bring there»
«Your first hit in the majors-that's tops. It means you're on your way. When you get the first hit, then you can get the rest.»
«The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal - that you can gather votes like box tops - is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process.»
Author: Adlai E. Stevenson
(Ambassador, Governor, Politician)
| Keywords:
box office, candidates, cereal, democratic process, indignities, indignity, merchandise, tops, votes
«Why isn't there a special name for the tops of your feet?»
«They sacrifice upon the tops of the mountains, and burn incense upon the hills, under oaks and poplars and elms, because the shadow thereof is good: therefore your daughters shall commit whoredom, and your spouses shall commit adultery.»
«What vast additions to the conveniences and comforts of living might mankind have acquired, if the money spent in wars had been employed in works of public utility; what an extension of agriculture even to the tops of our mountains; what rivers rendered navigable, or joined by canals; what bridges, aqueducts, new roads, and other public works, edifices, and improvements might not have been obtained by spending those millions in doing good, which in the last war have been spent in doing mischief.»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
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additions, aqueducts, canal, canals, conveniences, edifices, joined, public utility, public works, roads, tops, utility
«They are exalted for a little while, but are gone and brought low; they are taken out of the way as all other, and cut off as the tops of the ears of corn.»
«The sky was dark and gloomy, the air was damp and raw, the streets were wet and sloppy. The smoke hung sluggishly above the chimney-tops as if it lacked the courage to rise, and the rain came slowly and doggedly down, as if it had not even the spirit to pour.»
«The rain set early in to-night, / The sullen wind was soon awake. / It tore the elm-tops down for spite. / And did its worst to vex the lake.»
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