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«From Jesse James to Loeb and Leopold, from the perpetrators of the St Valentine's Day's massacre to the Lindbergh kidnapper and beyond, our celebrated delinquents have become a part of the national heritage.»
Author: F. W. Dupree
| Keywords:
celebrated, delinquent, delinquents, heritage, James, Jesse, Jesse James, kidnapper, kidnappers, massacre, perpetrator, perpetrators, St James, The National, Valentine Day
«In the game of love, the losers are more celebrated than the winners»
Author: Mason Cooley
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«I remember being handed a score composed by Mozart at the age of eleven. What could I say? I felt like de Kooning, who was asked to comment on a certain abstract painting, and answered in the negative. He was then told it was the work of a celebrated monk»
Author: Igor Stravinsky
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abstract painting, celebrated, comment, composed, de Kooning, eleven, handed, monk, Mozart, The Negative
«As regards the celebrated ''struggle for life,'' it seems to me for the present to have been rather asserted than proved. It does occur, but as the exception; the general aspect of life is not hunger and distress, but rather wealth, luxury, even absurd prodigality -- where there is a struggle it is a struggle for power.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
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aspect, asserted, celebrated, distress, exception, power hunger, prodigality, regards
«One of the little-celebrated powers of Presidents (and other high government officials) is to listen to their critics with just enough sympathy to ensure their silence.»
Author: John Kenneth Galbraith
| About:
Presidency
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celebrated, ensure, government officials, officials, Presidents
«Colonial system, public debts, heavy taxes, protection, commercial wars, etc., these offshoots of the period of manufacture swell to gigantic proportions during the period of infancy of large-scale industry. The birth of the latter is celebrated by a vast, Hero-like slaughter of the innocents.»
Author: Karl Marx
(Philosopher)
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celebrated, colonial, commercial, debts, etc., etc, gigantic, infancy, innocents, large scale, manufacture, public debt, scale, slaughter, slaughtered, swell, tax system
«It seems t' me that when a feller hain't got neither time ner money t' do a thing our celebrated prosperity has reached the limit»
«Not every religion has to have St. Augustine's attitude to sex. Why even in our culture marriages are celebrated in a church, everyone present knows what is going to happen that night, but that doesn't prevent it being a religious ceremony.»
Author: Ludwig Wittgenstein
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Augustine, celebrated, ceremony, Marriages, marriage ceremony, religious ceremony, St. Augustine, St Augustine
«If I were to be taken hostage, I would not plead for release nor would I want my government to be blackmailed. I think certain government officials, industrialists and celebrated persons should make it clear they are prepared to be sacrificed if taken hostage. If that were done, what gain would there be for terrorists in taking hostages?»
Author: Margaret Mead
| Keywords:
blackmail, blackmailed, celebrated, government officials, hostage, hostages, industrialist, officials, plead, pleaded, pleading, pleads, release, sacrificed, terrorists
«All celebrated people lose dignity on a close view»
Author: Napoleon Bonaparte
(Emperor, General, Politician)
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celebrated, celebrates, celebrating, dignity, view
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