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«On Capitol Hill Congress runs by an internal clock: Legislative days are not counted the way calendar days are, and the seasons are marked not by the earth's orbit but by whether Congress is in session or out.»
Author: Richard Corrigan
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Capitol, Capitol Hill, marked, orbit, orbits, session, Sessions
«It is generally admitted that with woman the powers of intuition, of rapid perception and perhaps of imitation, are more strongly marked than in man: but some, at least, of these faculties are characteristic of the lower races, and therefore of a pas»
Author: Charles Darwin
(Author, Naturalist)
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Men and Women
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admitted, characteristic, faculties, imitation, intuition, marked, pas, races, rapid, rapids, strongly
«Nine times out of ten it is over the Bridge of Sighs that we pass the narrow gulf from youth to manhood. That interval is usually marked by an ill placed or disappointed affection. We recover and we find ourselves a new being. The intellect has become hardened by the fire through which it has passed. The mind profits by the wrecks of every passion, and we may measure our road to wisdom by the sorrows we have undergone.»
Author: Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
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Bridge of Sighs, disappointed, gulf, gulfs, Gulf of, hardened, interval, marked, narrow mind, nine times, profits, recover, sighs, sorrows, The Bridge, The Bridge of Sighs, the Wrecks, undergone, wrecks
«Our father would never tell us what it was he feared, but he had a most marked aversion to men with wooden legs.»
«In every age of well-marked transition, there is the pattern of habitual dumb practice and emotion which is passing and there is oncoming a new complex of habit.»
Author: Alfred North Whitehead
(Mathematician, Philosopher)
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marked, oncoming, transition, well-marked
«I am a world-class weenie when it comes to letting people stick needles into me. My subconscious mind firmly believes that if God had wanted us to have direct access to our bloodstreams, He would have equipped our skin with small, clearly marked doors.»
Author: Dave Barry
(Humorist, Writer)
| About:
Funny
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access, equipped, firmly, marked, needles, subconscious, subconscious mind, weenie, weenies
«Madame, it is an old word and each one takes it new and wears it out himself. It is a word that fills with meaning as a bladder with air and the meaning goes out of it as quickly. It may be punctured as a bladder is punctured and patched and blown up again and if you have not had it does not exist for you. All people talk of it, but those who have had it are marked by it, and I would not wish to speak of it further since of all things it is the most ridiculous to talk of and only fools go through it many times.»
«Lincoln marked the half-way post on the road to the sewers (in presidents)»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
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Lincoln, marked, on the road, post, Presidents, sewers
«No matter how healthy a man's morals may be when he enters the White House, he comes out again with a pot-marked soul»
«Night is a dead monotonous period under a roof; but in the open world it passes lightly, with its stars and dews and perfumes, and the hours are marked by changes in the face of Nature. What seems a kind of temporal death to people choked between walls and curtains, is only a light and living slumber to the man who sleeps afield.»