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«The fundamental idea of modern capitalism is not the right of the individual to possess and enjoy what he has earned, but the thesis that the exercise of this right redounds to the general good.»
Author: Ralph B. Perry
| About:
Capitalism
| Keywords:
earned, General Idea, redound, redounds, thesis
«In composing, as a general rule, run your pen through every other word you have written; you have no idea what vigor it will give your style.»
Author: Sydney Smith
(Clergyman, Essayist, Wit)
| About:
Writing
| Keywords:
composing, every other, General Idea, general rule, General will, pen, vigor, writing style
«Murderers, in general, are people who are consistent, people who are obsessed with one idea and nothing else»
Author: Ugo Betti
(Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Murder
| Keywords:
consistent, General Idea, in general, murderers, obsess, obsessed, Obsessing
«A man is not necessarily intelligent because he has plenty of ideas any more than he is a good general because he has plenty of soldiers»
«The general idea, of course, in any first-class laundry is to see that no shirt or collar ever comes back twice.»
«General and abstract ideas are the source of the greatest errors of mankind.»
«In the description of night in Macbeth, the beetle and the bat detract from the general idea of darkness - inspissated gloom»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
bat, beetle, beetles, description, detract, detracting, detracts, General Idea, gloom, Macbeth, The Bat
«It is a general idea, that when taxes are once laid on, they are never taken off»
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