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«There are many who lust for the simple answers of doctrine or decree. They are on the left and right. They are not confined to a single part of the society. They are terrorists of the mind.»
Author: A. Bartlett Giamatti
(Educator)
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Society
| Keywords:
confined, decree, left and right, terrorists, the left
«Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a new dog, you get remarried, you owe ten million dollars in medical bills but you work hard for thirty-five years and you pay it back and then -- one day -- you have a massive stroke, your whole right side is paralyzed, you have to limp along the streets and speak out of the left side of your mouth and drool but you go into rehabilitation and regain the power to walk and the power to talk and then -- one day -- you step off a curb at Sixty-seventh Street, and BANG you get hit by a city bus and then you die. Maybe.»
Author: Denis Leary
(Actor)
| Keywords:
back street, bang, banged, banging, bangs, bang out, beg, Beg to, bills, Bill of Rights, bus, buses, busses, Cancer, curb, curbed, curbing, curbs, differ, dog days, dollars, dollar bill, drool, drooled, Five Days, go into, limp, limped, limping, Limps, massive, medical, owe, paid off, paralyzed, paralyzes, paralyzing, pay back, pay off, regain, regained, regaining, regains, rehabilitation, remission, seventh, sixty, stroke, sucks, the left, The Streets, The Strokes, thirty-five, thirty, Thirty one, walk off
«One wanders to the left, another to the right. Both are equally in error, but, are seduced by different delusions.»
«Societies need rules that make no sense for individuals. For example, it makes no difference whether a single car drives on the left or on the right. But it makes all the difference when there are many cars!»
Author: Marvin Minsky
(Educator, Electrical engineer, Mathematician)
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cars, drives, for example, individual differences, societies, the left
«Jargon seems to be the place where the right brain and the left brain meet»
Author: Wendy Kaminer
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jargon, jargon of, left brain, meeting place, right brain, the left
«That field goal attempt was so far to the left it nearly decapitated Lyndon LaRouche»
Author: Dennis Miller
(Actor, Comedian)
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decapitate, decapitated, field goal, left field, Lyndon, the left
«Swerve to the left, son Roger, he said, / When you catch his eyes through the helmet-slit, / Swerve to the left, then out at his head, / And the Lord God give you the joy of it!»
«Pooh looked at his two paws. He knew that one of them was the right, and he knew that when you had decided which one of them was the right, then the other was the left, but he never could remember how to begin»
«Now when we had discovered Cyprus, we left it on the left hand, and sailed into Syria, and landed at Tyre: for there the ship was to unlade her burden.»
«Then answered I, and said unto him, What are these two olive trees upon the right side of the candlestick and upon the left side thereof? / And I answered again, and said unto him, What be these two olive branches which through the two golden pipes empty the golden oil out of themselves? / And he answered me and said, Knowest thou not what these be? And I said, No, my lord.»