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«I was in Europe and it was at this stage that I fell in love with Americans in uniform. And I continue to have that love affair.»
«Manners are of more importance than laws... Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe in.»
Author: Edmund Burke
(Philosopher, Statesman)
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Manners
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barbarize, breathe in, debase, debased, debases, debasing, exalt, insensible, operation, purify, refine, soothe, uniform, vex, vexes, vexing
«I was a Navy officer writing about Navy problems and I simply stole this lovely Army nurse and popped her into a Navy uniform, where she has done very well for herself.»
«Men in the uniform of Wall Street retirement: black Chesterfield coat, rimless glasses and the Times folded to the obituary page.»
Author: Jimmy Breslin
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chesterfield, coat, folded, glasses, obituaries, obituary, retirement, rimless, The Times, uniform
«The bitterest creature under heaven is the wife who discovers that her husband's bravery is only bravado, that his strength is only a uniform, that his power is but a gun in the hands of a fool.»
«Man has no right to kill his brother. It is no excuse that he does so in uniform: he only adds the infamy of servitude to the crime of murder.»
«I love doubleheaders. That way I get to keep my uniform on longer.»
«RECRUIT, n. A person distinguishable from a civilian by his uniform and from a soldier by his gait.Fresh from the farm or factory or street, His marching, in pursuit or in retreat, Were an impressive martial spectacle Except for two impediments --his feet. --Thompson Johnson»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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civilians, distinguishable, factory, farm, foot soldier, foot soldiers, gait, impediments, impressive, Johnson, marching, Martial, recruit, recruited, recruiting, recruits, retreat, spectacle, The Farm, Thompson, uniform
«Science is the attempt to make the chaotic diversity of our sense experience correspond to a logically uniform system of thought.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
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chaotic, correspond, diversity, sense experience, uniform
«Justice is indispensably and universally necessary, and what is necessary must always be limited, uniform, and distinct»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
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Justice
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distinct, uniform, universally
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