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«Americans are the only people in the world known to me whose status anxiety prompts them to advertise their college and university affiliations in the rear window of their automobiles»
Author: Paul Fussell
| About:
America and Americans,
Anxiety
| Keywords:
advertise, affiliation, affiliations, anxiety, automobiles, college, Colleges and universities, prompt, prompting, prompts, rear, rear window, status, university
«Always set high value on spontaneous kindness. He whose inclination prompts him to cultivate your friendship of his own accord will love you more than one whom you have been at pains to attach to you.»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
accord, attach, attach to, cultivate, inclination, pains, prompt, prompting, prompts, spontaneous
«Real valor consists not in being insensible to danger; but in being prompt to confront and disarm it.»
Author: Sir Walter Scott
(Biographer, Historian, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
confront, disarm, disarmed, disarming, disarms, insensible, prompt, prompter, prompting, valor
«A far greater factor [than abolishing poverty] is the deterrent effect of swift and certain consequences: swift arrest, prompt trial, certain penalty and - at some point - finality of judgment.»
Author: Warren E. Burger
| About:
Consequences,
Judgement,
Poverty
| Keywords:
abolishing, arrest, deterrent, penalty, prompt, prompter, swift
«A powerful agent is the right word. Whenever we come upon one of those intensely right words... the resulting effect is physical as well as spiritual, and electrically prompt.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
electrically, intensely, prompt, prompter
«Living is not enough; it has no value by itself. It is the motives, the feelings, the thoughts, the attitudes that prompt the day to day life that matters.»
«Pride and jealousy there was in his eye, for his life had been spent in asserting rights which were constantly liable to invasion; and the prompt, fiery, and resolute disposition of the man, had been kept constantly upon the alert by the circumstances of his situation.»
Author: Sir Walter Scott
(Biographer, Historian, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
alert, asserting, disposition, fiery, invasion, liable, Pride and, prompt, prompter, resolute
«Life is one long struggle between conclusions based on abstract ways of conceiving cases, and opposite conclusions prompted by our instinctive perception of them.»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| Keywords:
abstract, cases, conceiving, conclusions, instinctive, perception, prompt, prompted, prompting