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«Stubbornness does have its helpful features. You always know what you're going to be thinking tomorrow.»
«There never was a chip, it is said, that Bill Gates couldn't slow down with a new batch of features.»
Author: James Coates
| Keywords:
batch, Bill Gates, chip, features, Gates, New Gate, slow down, The New Gate
«One of the oddest features of western Christianized culture is its ready acceptance of the myth of the stable family and the happy marriage. We have been taught to accept the myth not as an heroic ideal, something good, brave, and nearly impossible to fulfil, but as the very fiber of normal life. Given most families and most marriages, the belief seems admirable but foolhardily.»
Author: Jonathan Raban
| Keywords:
admirable, Christianized, families, features, fiber, fibers, fulfil, Happy Family, heroic, Marriages, myth, normal family, oddest, stable, The Myth, Western
«Normal people ... believe that if it ain't broke, don't fix it. Engineers believe that if it ain't broke, it doesn't have enough features yet.»
Author: Scott Adams
(Cartoonist)
| Keywords:
broke, engineers, enough, features, fix, fixes, fixing, fix it, fix up, normal, The Engineer, yet
«The 'feminine' woman is forever static and childlike. She is like the ballerina in an old-fashioned music box, her unchanging features tiny and girlish, her voice tinkly, her body stuck on a pin, rotating in a spiral that will never grow.»
Author: Susan Faludi
(Writer)
| Keywords:
ballerina, Ballerinas, fashioned, features, feminine, girlish, music box, old fashioned, pin, rotate, rotating, spiral, spiraling, spirals, stuck, tinkly, unchanging
«There is an insistent tendency among serious social scientists to think of any institution which features rhymed and singing commercials, intense and lachrymose voices urging highly improbable enjoyment, caricatures of the human esophagus in normal and impaired operation, and which hints implausibly at opportunities for antiseptic seduction as inherently trivial. This is a great mistake. The industrial system is profoundly dependent on commercial television and could not exist in its present form without it.»
Author: John Kenneth Galbraith
| Keywords:
antiseptic, caricatures, dependent, esophagus, features, hints, human voice, impair, impaired, impairing, impairs, implausibly, improbable, industrial, insistent, lachrymose, rhymed, urging
«Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding»
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
(Humorist, Physician, Poet, Professor, Writer)
| Keywords:
breeding, features, steadiness, stillness
«There is no alleviation for the sufferings of mankind except veracity of thought and of action, and the resolute facing of the world as it is when the garment of make-believe by which pious hands have hidden its uglier features is stripped off.»
Author: Thomas Henry Huxley
(Biologist)
| Keywords:
alleviation, facing, features, pious, uglier, veracity
«People learn details about China, Russia and America; they know about the volcanoes of the Pacific or the islands of the Arctic regions; but they do not know an iota about the features of their own inner realms.»
«These, then, will be some of the features of democracy... it will be, in all likelihood, an agreeable, lawless, parti-colored commonwealth, dealing with all alike on a footing of equality, whether they be really equal or not.»
Author: Plato
(Philosopher)
| Keywords:
agreeable, colored, commonwealth, commonwealths, dealing, features, footing, in all likelihood, lawless, likelihood, the Commonwealth
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