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«It should be done with the same degree of alacrity and nonchalance that you would display in authorizing a highly intelligent trained bear to remove your appendix.»
Author: Daniel S. Greenberg
| Keywords:
alacrity, appendix, authorize, authorized, authorizes, authorizing, display, done with, highly, nonchalance, trained
«Every person on the streets of New York is a type. The city is one big theater where everyone is on display.»
Author: Jerry Rubin
(Activist, Founder)
| About:
America and Americans,
New York
| Keywords:
Big cities, Big City, City of New York, display, theater, The City, The Streets, type
«God preordained, for his own glory and the display of His attributes of mercy and justice, a part of the human race, without any merit of their own, to eternal salvation, and another part, in just punishment of their sin, to eternal damnation»
Author: John Calvin
(Statesman, Theologian)
| About:
God
| Keywords:
attributes, damnation, display, eternal damnation, merit, of their own, salvation
«An uncommon zoo specimen that survives on a diet of hamburgers, French fries and Coke went on display this weekend at Miami's MetroZoo.»
Author: Kerry Gruson
| Keywords:
coke, display, french fries, fries, hamburgers, Miami, specimen, specimens, uncommon, zoo
«In no other country in the world is the love of property keener or more alert than in the United States, and nowhere else does the majority display less inclination toward doctrines which in any way threaten the way property is owned.»
Author: Alexis de Tocqueville
(Historian, Political scientist)
| Keywords:
alert, alerting, display, doctrines, inclination, in the United States, keener, on the alert, owned, threaten
«In any country where talent and virtue produce no advancement, money will be the national god. Its inhabitants will either have to possess money or make others believe that they do. Wealth will be the highest virtue, poverty the greatest vice. Those who have money will display it in every imaginable way. If their ostentation does not exceed their fortune, all will be well. But if their ostentation does exceed their fortune they will ruin themselves. In such a country, the greatest fortunes will vanish in the twinkling of an eye. Those who don't have money will ruin themselves with vain efforts to conceal their poverty. That is one kind of affluence: the outward sign of wealth for a small number, the mask of poverty for the majority, and a source of corruption for all.»
Author: Denis Diderot
| Keywords:
advancement, advancements, affluence, be well, conceal, corruption, display, efforts, exceed, fortunes, Gods Themselves, imaginable, Inhabitants, mask, national, number the, ostentation, outward, ruin, small fortune, small number, The Gods Themselves, The Mask, The National, twinkling, vain, vanish, vice
«And stay in your houses and do not display your finery like the displaying of the ignorance of yore; and keep up prayer, and pay the poor-rate, and obey Allah and His Apostle. Allah only desires to keep away the uncleanness from you, O people of the»
Author: quran
| Keywords:
Allah, Apostle, display, displaying, finery, house of prayer, keep away, uncleanness, yore
«CONVERSATION, n. A fair to the display of the minor mental commodities, each exhibitor being too intent upon the arrangement of his own wares to observe those of his neighbor.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
arrangement, commodities, display, exhibitor, intent, intents, minor, neighbor, observe, of his own, The Arrangement, wares
«Almost every man wastes part of his life in attempts to display qualities which he does not possess, and to gain applauses which he cannot keep; so that scarcely can two persons meet, but one is offended or diverted by the ostentation of the other»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Life,
Relationships
| Keywords:
display, divert, diverted, diverting, diverts, offended, ostentation, scarcely, wastes