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«A stockbroker urged me to buy a stock that would triple its value every year. I told him, ''At my age, I don't even buy green bananas.»
Author: Claude Pepper
| Keywords:
banana, bananas, every year, stock, triple, tripled, triples, urged
«I have urged on woman independence of man, not that I do not think the sexes mutually needed by one another, but because in woman this fact has led to an excessive devotion, which has cooled love, degraded marriage and prevented it her sex from being what it should be to itself or the other. I wish woman to live, first for God's sake. Then she will not take what is not fit for her from a sense of weakness and poverty. Then if she finds what she needs in man embodied, she will know how to love and be worthy of being loved.»
«No more duty can be urged upon those who are entering the great theater of life than simple loyalty to their best convictions.»
Author: Edwin Hubbel Chapin
(Author, Clergyman, Pastor, Speaker, Writer)
| About:
Conviction,
Duty
| Keywords:
entering, enter upon, urged
«And when the man rose up to depart, his father in law urged him: therefore he lodged there again.»
«Before World War I one of the objections commonly urged against votes for women was that women would tend to be pacifists. During the war they gave a large-scale refutation of this charge, and the vote was given to them for their share in the bloody»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Right,
War,
Women
| Keywords:
bloody, charge, commonly, large scale, objections, pacifist, pacifists, refutation, refutations, scale, urged, votes, world war, World War I
«It is essential to persuade the soldier that those he is being urged to massacre are bandits who do not deserve to live; before killing other good, decent fellows like himself, his gun would fall from his hands»
Author: Andre Gide
| About:
Army,
Persuasion,
Violence
| Keywords:
bandit, bandits, decent, fall from, fellows, massacre, persuade, The Soldier, urged
«NONSENSE, n. The objections that are urged against this excellent dictionary.»
«It is always pleasant to be urged to do something on the ground that one can do it well.»
«I urged the Soviet leader, Mr. Gorbachev, to send a new signal of openness to the world by tearing down that wall.»
Author: Ronald Reagan
(President)
| Keywords:
Gorbachev, Mr Gorbachev, send down, signal, soviet, tearing, tearing down, urged
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