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«Indeed, in a free government almost all other rights would become worthless if the government possessed power over the private fortune of every citizen»
Author: John Marshall
(Founder)
| About:
Government
| Keywords:
almost all, citizen, possessed, worthless
«If the egotist is weak, his egotism is worthless. If the egotist is strong, acute, full of distinctive character, his egotism is precious, and remains a possession of the race.»
Author: Alexander Smith
(Essayist, Poet)
| Keywords:
acute, distinctive, egotism, egotist, egotists, worthless
«In the absence of will-power the most complete collection of virtues and talents is wholly worthless.»
«As for types like my own, obscurely motivated by the conviction that our existence was worthless if we didn't make a turning point of it, we were assigned to the humanities, to poetry, philosophy, painting / the nursery games of humankind, which had to be left behind when the age of science began. The humanities would be called upon to choose a wallpaper for the crypt, as the end drew near.»
Author: Saul Bellow
(Novelist)
| Keywords:
called upon, crypt, Drew, humanities, Left Behind, motivated, nurseries, nursery, obscurely, The Nursery, The Turning Point, turning point, types, wallpaper, worthless
«Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless.»
«Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.»
Author: Thomas Carlyle
(Essayist, Historian)
| About:
Conviction
| Keywords:
conduct, converted, conviction, worthless
«Dollars! All their cares, hopes, joys, affections, virtues, and associations seemed to be melted down into dollars. Whatever the chance contributions that fell into the slow cauldron of their talk, they made the gruel thick and slab with dollars. Men were weighed by their dollars, measures were gauged by their dollars; life was auctioned, appraised, put up, and knocked down for its dollars. The next respectable thing to dollars was any venture having their attainment for its end. The more of that worthless ballast, honor and fair-dealing, which any man cast overboard from the ship of his Good Nature and Good Intent, the more ample stowage-room he had for dollars. Make commerce one huge lie and mighty theft. Deface the banner of the nation for an idle rag; pollute it star by star; and cut out stripe by stripe as from the arm of a degraded soldier. Do anything for dollars! What is a flag to them!»
Author: Charles Dickens
| Keywords:
affections, ample, appraise, appraising, associations, attainment, auction, ballast, banner, cauldron, commerce, contributions, cutting room, cut out, deface, defaced, degraded, Fair dealing, flag down, gauge, gauged, gauging, good nature, gruel, idle talk, intent, knocked, measures, melted, overboard, pollute, pollutes, polluting, put up, rag, respectable, slab, Stars and Stripes, striped, talk down, theft, thefts, their talk, thick, venture, weighed, weighed down, worthless
«If your strength is small, don't carry heavy burdens. If your words are worthless, don't give advice.»
«If it requires a uniform it's a worthless endeavor»
Author: George Carlin
(Actor, Author, Comedian)
| Keywords:
endeavor, endeavored, requires, uniform, uniforms, worthless
«Conviction never so excellent, is worthless until it coverts itself into conduct.»
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