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«When the conspiracy of lies surrounding me demands of me to silence the one word of truth given to me, that word becomes the one word I wish to utter above all others.»
Author: Andre P. Brink
| About:
Lies,
Truth,
Words
| Keywords:
above all, conspiracies, conspiracy, conspiracy of silence, demands, surrounding, utter
«When I hear the word culture - I release the safety-catch of my Browning»
«When deeds speak, words are nothing.»
«What is inherently wrong with the word 'politician' if the fellow has devoted his life to holding public office and trying to do something for his people?»
Author: Richard J. Daley
(Mayor)
| About:
Politicians,
Words
| Keywords:
devoted, inherently, public office
«What is difficulty? Only a word indicating the degree of strength requisite for accomplishing particular objects; a mere notice of the necessity for exertion; a bugbear to children and fools; only a stimulus to men»
Author: Samuel Warren
| About:
Difficulty,
Effort,
Words
| Keywords:
accomplishing, bugbear, bugbears, exertion, indicating, requisite, stimuli, stimulus
«We look to the history of the time of framing and to the intervening history of interpretation. But the ultimate question must be, what do the words of the text mean in our time.»
Author: William J. Brennan, Jr.
| About:
History,
Time,
Words
| Keywords:
framing, History of the, interpretation, intervene, intervening, In Our Time, look to, text, The History, The History of
«When he spoke, what tender words he used! So softly, that like flakes of feathered snow, They melted as they fell.»
«What a word is truth. Slippery, tricky, unreliable. I tried in these books to tell the truth.»
Author: Lillian Hellman
(Playwright)
| About:
Truth,
Words
| Keywords:
slippery, To Tell the Truth, tricky, unreliable
«We should pass a flex time law that allows employees to take their overtime pay in money or in time off, depending on what's better for their family.»
«What Wickham had said of the living was fresh in her memory, and as she recalled his very words, it was impossible not to feel that there was gross duplicity on one side or the other»
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