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«Jazz is the big brother of the blues. If a guy's playing blues like we play, he's in high school. When he starts playing jazz it's like going on to college, to a school of higher learning.»
Author: B. B. King
| Keywords:
Big Blue, big brother, blues, high school, jazz, School of, The Big Blue, The Blues
«Cinema, radio, television, magazines are a school of inattention: people look without seeing, listen in without hearing.»
Author: Robert Bresson
| About:
Media
| Keywords:
cinema, hearing, inattention, listen in, magazines, radio, School of
«I, on the other hand, am a fully-rounded human being, with a degree from the University of Life, a diploma from the School of Hard Knocks, and three gold stars from the Kindergarten of Getting the Shit Kicked Out of Me»
Author: Rowan Atkinson
(Actor)
| Keywords:
diploma, diplomas, kicked, knocks, on the other hand, rounded, School of, shit, The school, the University, university
«In point of substantial merit the law school belongs in the modern university no more than a school of fencing or dancing»
Author: Thorstein Veblen
(Economist)
| Keywords:
fencing, law school, Modern School, School of, substantial
«Genuine morality is preserved only in the school of adversity; a state of continuous prosperity may easily prove a quick sand to virtue»
Author: Friedrich von Schiller
(Dramatist, Historian, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Adversity,
Morality,
Prosperity,
Virtue
| Keywords:
continuous, preserved, School of, The school
«Life is a school of probability»
Author: Walter Bagehot
(Analyst, Economist, Editor)
| About:
Life
| Keywords:
probability, School of
«As a graduate of the Zsa Zsa Gabor School of Creative mathematics, I honestly do not know how old I am»
«In the school of political projectors, I was but ill entertained, the professors appearing, in my judgment, wholly out of their senses; which is a scene that never fails to make me melancholy. These unhappy people were proposing schemes for persuading monarchs to choose favorites upon the score of their wisdom, capacity, and virtue; of teaching ministers to consult the public good; of rewarding merit, great abilities, and eminent services, of instructing princes to know their true interest, by placing it on the same foundation with that of their people; of choosing for employment persons qualified to exercise them; with many other wild impossible chimeras, that never entered before into the heart of man to conceive; and confirmed in me the old observation, that there is nothing so extravagant and irrational which some philosophers have not maintained for truth.»
Author: Jonathan Swift
(Author, Satirist)
| Keywords:
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