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«The danger of parachuting young enthusiastic scientists into a flower bed of selected data and fully bloomed conceptions should be underestimated.»
Author: A. Lwoff
| About:
Danger,
Sports
| Keywords:
bloomed, flower bed, parachutes, parachuting, selected, underestimated
«Pink is the color of romance and a friend tells me that the girl with the pink dress at the party is the one who is selected for each dance»
«What in fact takes place in an election is that two hand picked candidates are propped up before the citizenry, each candidate having been selected by a very small group of politically active people. A minority of the people... then elects one of these hand picked people to rule itself and the majority.»
Author: Robert J. Ringer
| Keywords:
candidate, candidates, election, elects, group of people, hand-picked, majority rule, minority, minority group, picked, politically, propped, propping, props, prop up, selected, two-handed
«There was a state without king or nobles; there was a church without a bishop; there was a people governed by grave magistrates which it had selected, and by equal laws which it had framed»
«And remember, this was a president [George W. Bush] who was selected by the Supreme Court rather than the people.»
«What is a novel if not a conviction of our fellow-men's existence strong enough to take upon itself a form of imagined life clearer than reality and whose accumulated verisimilitude of selected episodes puts to shame the pride of documentary history?»
Author: Joseph Conrad
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accumulated, an episode, clearer, documentary, episode, episodes, imagined, selected, verisimilitude
«That was a memorable day to me, for it made great changes in me. But, it is the same with any life. Imagine one selected day struck out of it, and think how different its course would have been. Pause you who read this, and think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first link on one memorable day.»
«Bad artists always admire each other's work. They call it being large-minded and free from prejudice. But a truly great artist cannot conceive of life being shown, or beauty fashioned, under any conditions other than those he has selected.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
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artists, conceive, conceive of, fashioned, minded, other than, prejudice, selected, shown
«Freedom of religion, freedom of the press, freedom of person under the protection of the habeas corpus; and trial by juries impartially selected, - these principles form the bright constellation which has gone before us»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| About:
Freedom
| Keywords:
bright, constellation, corpus, freedom of religion, freedom of the press, habeas corpus, impartially, juries, press, principles, protection, protections, selected, Selecting, selects, the press, trial
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