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«The Fact that our economical models at The Fed, the best in the world, have been wrong for fourteen straight quarters, does not mean they will not be right in the fifteenth quarter»
«The definition of the composition of air ensues from this program of research : atmospheric air is not an element, that is, a simple body, but a mixture of several gases. Approximately a quarter of atmospheric air is composed by dephologisticated or»
Author: Antoine Lavoisier
(Chemist)
| Keywords:
approximately, atmospheric, composed, composition, ensue, ensued, ensues, ensuing, gases, mixture, program, quarter, research
«The company accountant is shy and retiring. He's shy a quarter of a million dollars. That's why he's retiring.»
«Survival, with honor, that outmoded and all-important word, is as difficult as ever and as all-important to a writer. Those who do not last are always more beloved since no one has to see them in their long, dull, unrelenting, no-quarter-given-and-no»
Author: Ernest Hemingway
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all important, No Quarter, outmoded, quarter, unrelenting, word of honor
«One receives as reward for much ennui, despondency, boredom --such as a solitude without friends, books, duties, passions must bring with it --those quarter-hours of profoundest contemplation within oneself and nature. He who completely entrenches himself against boredom also entrenches himself against himself: he will never get to drink the strongest refreshing draught from his own innermost fountain.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| Keywords:
boredom, contemplation, despondency, draught, draughts, duties, ennui, entrenched, entrenches, fountain, innermost, profoundest, quarter, receives, refreshes, refreshing, such as
«The Westerly Wind asserting his sway from the south-west quarter is often like a monarch gone mad, driving forth with wild imprecations the most faithful of his courtiers to shipwreck, disaster, and death.»
Author: Joseph Conrad
| Keywords:
courtier, courtiers, Go West, monarch, quarter, shipwreck, shipwrecked, South West, south wind, sway, the South, westerly, west wind, Wild West
«Men are to be guided only by their self-interests. Good government is a good balancing of these; and, except a keen eye and appetite for self-interest, requires no virtue in any quarter. To both parties it is emphatically a machine: to the discontented, a ''taxing-machine';' to the contented, a ''machine for securing property'.' Its duties and its faults are not those of a father, but of an active parish-constable.»
Author: Thomas Carlyle
(Essayist, Historian)
| Keywords:
active, appetite, balancing, constable, constables, contented, discontented, duties, emphatically, guided, keen, machine, No Quarter, parish, Parties, party man, quarter, securing, self government, self interest, taxing