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shoddy
«The organization man is dead. He thrived when smokestack America thrived. When airlines, banks and telephones were highly regulated. When Japan built shoddy cars. When computers were huge and an apple was something you ate.»
Author: Bruce Nussbaum
| About:
Technology
| Keywords:
airline, airlines, Apple Computer, Banks, cars, japan, organization man, regulated, shoddy, smokestack, smokestacks, telephones, The Organization, thrived
«Language is the apparel in which your thoughts parade before the public. Never clothe them in vulgar or shoddy attire.»
«He did not arrive at this conclusion by the decent process of quiet, logical deduction, nor yet by the blinding flash of glorious intuition, but by the shoddy, untidy process halfway between the two by which one usually gets to know things.»
«Children will watch anything, and when a broadcaster uses crime and violence and other shoddy devices to monopolize a child's attention, it's worse than taking candy from a baby. It is taking precious time from the process of growing up.»
Author: Newton N. Minow
| About:
Children,
Violence
| Keywords:
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«If most of us are ashamed of shabby clothes and shoddy furniture, let us be more ashamed of shabby ideas and shoddy philosophies... It would be a sad situation if the wrapper were better than the meat wrapped inside it.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| Keywords:
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«My idea of our civilization is that it is a shoddy, poor thing and full of cruelties, vanities, arrogances, meannesses and hypocrisies»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| About:
Civilization
| Keywords:
civilization, cruelties, hypocrisies, shoddy, vanities