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«Politicians trim and tack in their quest for power, but they do so in order to get the wind of votes in their sails.»
Author: Ian Gilmour
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Politicians
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«He who trims himself to suit everyone will soon whittle himself away.»
«Can't you see you go public and all these people owning you want is dividends and running their stock up, you don't give them that and they sell you out, you do and some bunch of vice presidents some place you never heard of like the ones that turned this out, this wood product they call it, they spot you and launch an offer and all of a sudden you're working for them trimming and cutting and finally bringing in people to turn something out they don't care what the hell it is, there's no pride in their work because what you've got them turning out nobody could be proud of in the first place.»
Author: William Gaddis
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«The hands of every clock are shears, trimming us away scrap by scrap, and every time piece with a digital readout blinks us towards implosion.»
«A disquieting era of genetic manipulation is coming, one that may revolutionize human capacities, and notions of health. If we treat moral scruples impatiently, as inherently retrograde in a scientifically advancing civilization, we will not be in moral trim when, soon, our very humanity depends on our being in trim.»
Author: George F. Will
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«And Mephibosheth the son of Saul came down to meet the king, and had neither dressed his feet, nor trimmed his beard, nor washed his clothes, from the day the king departed until the day he came again in peace.»
«If you are well off and can afford to spend ten or twenty-five dollars a day to hire some patient soul to listen to your troubles you can be readjusted to the crazy scheme of things and spare yourself the humiliation of becoming a Christian Scientist. You can have your ego trimmed or removed, as you wish, just like a wart or bunion.»
Author: Henry Miller
(Author, Writer)
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bunion, Christian Scientist, humiliation, scheme, trimmed, Twenty Five, wart, well-off
«Many a family tree needs trimming»
«Manhood is melted into courtesies, valor into compliment, and men are only turned into tongue, and trim ones, too.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
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