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«Biographical history, as taught in our public schools, is still largely a history of boneheads: ridiculous kings and queens, paranoid political leaders, compulsive voyagers, ignorant generals - the flotsam and jetsam of historical currents. The men who radically altered history, the great scientists and mathematicians, are seldom mentioned, if at all.»
Author: Martin Gardner
(Calligrapher, Mathematician, Scientist)
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altered, biographical, compulsive, currents, flotsam, generals, General Public, historical, jetsam, Kings and Queens, King and Queen, largely, mentioned, paranoid, paranoids, Political history, political leader, public schools, Queens, radically, scientists, voyager, voyagers
«An odd thing occurs in the minds of Americans when Indian civilization is mentioned: little or nothing.»
Author: Paula Gunn Allen
(Writer)
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American civilization, American Indian, Indian, mentioned, occurs, odd
«I think I mentioned to Bob [Geldof] I could make love for eight hours. What I didn't say was that this included four hours of begging and then dinner and a movie.»
«A person often catches a cold when a mother-in-law comes to visit. Patients mentioned mothers-in-law so often that we came to consider them a common cause of disease in the United States.»
Author: Thomas Holmes
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catches, catch cold, common cause, common cold, mentioned, Mother in Law, patients
«I remember the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare that in his writing (whatsoever he penned) he never blotted out a line. My answer hath been, `Would he had blotted a thousand.'»
Author: Ben Jonson
(Dramatist, Poet)
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blotted, blotted out, honour, mentioned, penned, whatsoever
«For thy sister Sodom was not mentioned by thy mouth in the day of thy pride, / Before thy wickedness was discovered, as at the time of thy reproach of the daughters of Syria, and all that are round about her, the daughters of the Philistines, which despise thee round about.»
«But those devotees who have faith and sincerely try to develop the above mentioned immortal virtues, and set Me as their supreme goal; are very dear to Me.»
«MAGDALENE, n. An inhabitant of Magdala. Popularly, a woman found out. This definition of the word has the authority of ignorance, Mary of Magdala being another person than the penitent woman mentioned by St. Luke. It has also the official sanction of the governments of Great Britain and the United States. In England the word is pronounced Maudlin, whence maudlin, adjective, unpleasantly sentimental. With their Maudlin for Magdalene, and their Bedlam for Bethlehem, the English may justly boast themselves the greatest of revisers.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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adjective, adjectives, Bedlam, Bethlehem, Bethlehem To, boast, Britain, government officials, government of the United, government of the United States, Great Britain, inhabitant, justly, Luke, Mary, maudlin, mentioned, official, penitent, popularly, pronounced, sanction, sentimental, St Luke, The Authority, unpleasantly, whence
«And Meshobab, and Jamlech, and Joshah, the son of Amaziah, / And Joel, and Jehu the son of Josibiah, the son of Seraiah, the son of Asiel, / And Elioenai, and Jaakobah, and Jeshohaiah, and Asaiah, and Adiel, and Jesimiel, and Benaiah, / And Ziza the son of Shiphi, the son of Allon, the son of Jedaiah, the son of Shimri, the son of Shemaiah; / These mentioned by their names were princes in their families: and the house of their fathers increased greatly.»