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«He had drawn many a thousand of these rations in prisons and camps, and though he'd never had an opportunity to weight them on scales, and although, being a man of timid nature, he knew no way of standing up for his rights, he, like every other prisoner, had discovered long ago that honest weight was never to be found in the bread-cutting. There was short weight in every ration. The only point was how short. So every day you took a look to soothe your soul - today, maybe, they haven't snitched any.»
«European imperialism long ago made Tahiti a distant suburb of Paris, the missionaries made it a suburb of Christ's kingdom, and the radio made it a suburb of Los Angeles»
Author: Cedric Belfrage
| About:
Country
| Keywords:
Angeles, European, imperialism, long ago, missionaries, Paris, radio, suburb, Tahiti
«Beauty is only skin deep. I think what's really important is finding a balance of mind, body and spirit. Somebody said to me not too long ago, 'Until you're twenty, you have the face you are born with, and after that you have the face you deserve', and I really loved that - the idea that you wear who you are on your face.»
Author: Jennifer Lopez
(Actress, Model, Singer)
| About:
Beauty,
Sex appeal
| Keywords:
balance, long ago, skin-deep
«Business life, whether among ourselves or with other people, is even a sharp struggle for success. It will be none the less so in the future. Without competition we would be clinging to the clumsy antiquated processes of farming and manufacture and the methods of business of long ago, and the twentieth would be no further advanced than the eighteenth century.»
Author: William McKinley
(Politician)
| Keywords:
advanced, antiquated, business life, business methods, clinging, clumsy, competition, eighteenth, eighteenth century, farming, long ago, manufacture, methods, processes, sharp, twentieth
«He paints for the blind, and we are the blind, and he lets us see for sure what we saw long ago but weren't sure we saw. He paints for the dead, to remind us that - great good God, think of it - we're alive ...»
Author: William Saroyan
(Writer)
| About:
Death and dying,
God,
Painting
| Keywords:
long ago, paints, remind, The Blind
«And yet so high, in spite of everything, is my opinion of the human race that I believe this bogey (War) would have disappeared long ago, had the sound sense of the nations not been systematically corrupted by commercial and political interests actin»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
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actin, bogey, commercial, corrupted, disappeared, long ago, systematically, The Sound
«American business long ago gave up on demanding that prospective employees be honest and hardworking. It has even stopped hoping for employees who are educated enough that they can tell the difference between the men's room and the women's room without having little pictures on the doors.»
Author: Dave Barry
(Humorist, Writer)
| Keywords:
ago, American, American Woman, demanding, doors, educated, employees, gave, hardworking, honest woman, hoping, long ago, pictures, prospective, stopped, The Doors, The Men, The Women, up on