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«Translation is at best an echo.»
«The primary, the fundamental, the essential purpose of the United Nations is to keep peace. Everything it does which helps prevent World War III is good. Everything which does not further that goal, either directly or indirectly, is at best superfluous.»
Author: Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.
(Ambassador, Senator)
| Keywords:
at best, directly, fundamental, III, indirectly, prevent, primary, superfluous, The United Nations, United Nations, world war
«Photography is a small voice, at best, but sometimes one photograph, or a group of them, can lure our sense of awareness.»
Author: W. Eugene Smith
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Photography
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at best, awareness, group, lure, lured, lures, luring, photograph, photography, small voice
«People come out to see you perform and you've got to give them the best you have within you. The lives of most men are patchwork quilts. Or at best one matching outfit with a closet and laundry bag full of incongruous accumulations. A lifetime of training for just ten seconds.»
Author: Jesse Owens
(Athlete)
| Keywords:
accumulations, at best, bag, closet, incongruous, matching, outfit, outfits, outfitted, patchwork, patchwork quilt, quilt, quilted, quilts, seconds, Second Coming, ten seconds, The Second Coming
«The reading public is intellectually adolescent at best, and it is obvious that what is called ''significant literature'' will only be sold to this public by exactly the same methods as are used to sell it toothpaste, cathartics and automobiles.»
Author: Raymond Chandler
(Writer)
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adolescent, adolescents, at best, automobiles, cathartic, cathartics, intellectually, sold, toothpaste
«The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotion, spends himself in a worthy cause; who at best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement; and who at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who have never tasted victory or defeat.»
Author: Theodore Roosevelt
(President)
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Olympic
«Party-spirit at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.»
«The works of women are symbolical. We sew, sew, prick our fingers, dull our sight, producing what? A pair of slippers, sir, to put on when you're weary -- or a stool. To stumble over and vex you... ''curse that stool!'' Or else at best, a cushion, where you lean and sleep, and dream of something we are not, but would be for your sake. Alas, alas! This hurts most, this... that, after all, we are paid the worth of our work, perhaps.»
«You live eighty years, and at best you get about six minutes of pure magic»
«We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
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and the, at best, best, Better Than Life, experience, great, often, oftenest, possible, reproduce, reproduced, reproduces, reproducing, secret
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