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«The smallest patch of green to arrest the monotony of asphalt and concrete is as important to the value of real estate as streets, sewers and convenient shopping.»
Author: James Felt
| Keywords:
arrest, asphalt, concrete, convenient, estate, monotony, patch, real estate, sewers, shopping
«We believe that if any gun dealer, manufacturer, or gun owners wants to test the law in court, they should be given every opportunity. Arrest them. Put the burden on them to prove the law is too vague.»
«There are two kinds of truth. There are real truths, and there are made up truths. [On his arrest for drug use]»
«Were I to deduce any system from my feelings on leaving Eton, it might be called The Theory of Permanent Adolescence. It is the theory that the experiences undergone by boys at the great public schools, their glories and disappointments, are so intense as to dominate their lives and to arrest their development. From these it results that the greater part of the ruling class remains adolescent, school-minded, self-conscious, cowardly, sentimental, and in the last analysis homosexual.»
Author: Cyril Connolly
| Keywords:
adolescence, arrest, arrested development, class feeling, cowardly, deduce, deduced, disappointments, dominate, Eton, glories, ruling, ruling class, school system, self-conscious, sentimental, theory of, The Ruling Class, undergone
«The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.»
«We must annex those people. We can afflict them with our wise and beneficent government. We can introduce the novelty of thieves, all the way up from street-car pickpockets to municipal robbers and Government defaulters, and show them how amusing it is to arrest them and try them and then turn them loose -- some for cash and some for ''political influence.'' We can make them ashamed of their simple and primitive justice. We can make that little bunch of sleepy islands the hottest corner on earth, and array it in the moral splendor of our high and holy civilization. Annexation is what the poor islanders need. ''Shall we to men benighted, the lamp of life deny?''»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
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afflict, all the way, amusing, annex, annexation, annexed, annexes, annexing, array, arraying, arrest, beneficent, benighted, bunch, cash, hottest, introduce, islander, Islanders, islands, lamp, municipal, novelty, pickpocket, pickpockets, primitive, robbers, sleepy, splendor, street corner, thieves
«To regret one's own experiences is to arrest one's own development. To deny one's own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one's life. It is no less than a denial of the soul.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Experience
| Keywords:
arrest, arrested development, arresting, arrests, denial, denials, denial of, deny, development, experiences, less than, lips, regret
«This fell sergeant, death, is strict in his arrest»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Death and dying
| Keywords:
arrest, sergeant, strict
«The way to stop financial joy-riding is to arrest the chauffeur, not the automobile»
Author: Woodrow T. Wilson
(President)
| Keywords:
arrest, automobile, chauffeur, chauffeured, chauffeurs, financial, riding
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