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«As far as modern writing is concerned, it is rarely rewarding to translate it, although it might be easy. Translation is very much like copying paintings.»
Author: Boris Pasternak
| Keywords:
copying, paintings, rewarding, translate, translation, translations, very much, very much like
«All my life I have lived and behaved very much like the sandpiper - just running down the edges of different countries and continents, 'looking for something'.»
Author: Elizabeth Bishop
(Poet, Writer)
| About:
Life,
Living
| Keywords:
behaved, continents, sandpiper, very much like
«Politics is very much like taxes - everybody is against them, or everybody is for them as long as they don't apply to him»
Author: Fiorello La Guardia
(Lawyer, Mayor)
| About:
Politics,
Taxation
| Keywords:
apply, very much like
«To remind a man of the good turns you have done him is very much like a reproach»
Author: Demosthenes
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very much like
«We live too much in books and not enough in nature, and we are very much like the simpleton of a Pliny the Younger, who went on studying a Greek author while before his eyes Vesuvius was overwhelming five cities beneath the ashes»
Author: Anatole France
(Writer)
| Keywords:
In books, overwhelming, Pliny, simpleton, simpletons, studying, The Ashes, very much like, Vesuvius
«I'm going to be a vice president very much like George Bush was. He proved to be a very effective vice president, perhaps the most effective we've had in a couple of hundred years.»
Author: Dan Quayle
(Vice President)
| About:
America and Americans,
Politics
| Keywords:
a couple of, George Bush, President George Bush, very much like, vice president
«Taxation is very much like dairy farming. The task is to extract the maximum amount of milk with the minimum amount of moo. And I'm afraid to say, that these days, all I'm getting is moo.»
Author: Terry Pratchett
(Writer)
| Keywords:
dairy, dairy farming, extract, extracted, extracting, extracts, farming, farms, maximum, milk, minimum, moo, taxation, These Days, The Farm, The Task, very much, very much like
«Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.»
Author: Winston Churchill
(Author, Orator, Prime Minister)
| About:
Politics
| Keywords:
gas, gases, poison, poison gas, very much, very much like
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