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«It's our tendency to approach every problem as if it were a fight between two sides. We see it in headlines that are always using metaphors for war. It's a general atmosphere of animosity and contention that has taken over our public discourse.»
Author: Deborah Tannen
| Keywords:
animosities, animosity, contention, contentions, discourse, General Public, headlined, headlines, taken over, tendency
«I thought it [Star Wars] was too wacky for the general public.»
«By the worldly standards of public life, all scholars in their work are of course oddly virtuous. They do not make wild claims, they do not cheat, they do not try to persuade at any cost, they appeal neither to prejudice nor to authority, they are often frank about their ignorance, their disputes are fairly decorous, they do not confuse what is being argued with race, politics, sex or age, they listen patiently to the young and to the old who both know everything. These are the general virtues of scholarship, and they are peculiarly the virtues of science.»
Author: Jacob Bronowski
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appeal, argued, at any cost, cheat, claims, confuse, decorous, disputes, fairly, frank, General Public, oddly, Old Course, patiently, peculiarly, persuade, public works, scholars, scholarship, sex appeal, standards, worldly
«The Constitution is not a panacea for every blot upon the public welfare, nor should this Court, ordained as a judicial body, be thought of as a general haven for reform movements»
Author: John Marshall
(Founder)
| About:
Constitution
| Keywords:
blot, blots, blotting, General Public, haven, havens, Movements, ordain, ordained, ordains, panacea, Public welfare, reform, reform movement, welfare
«Biographical history, as taught in our public schools, is still largely a history of boneheads: ridiculous kings and queens, paranoid political leaders, compulsive voyagers, ignorant generals - the flotsam and jetsam of historical currents. The men who radically altered history, the great scientists and mathematicians, are seldom mentioned, if at all.»
Author: Martin Gardner
(Calligrapher, Mathematician, Scientist)
| Keywords:
altered, biographical, compulsive, currents, flotsam, generals, General Public, historical, jetsam, Kings and Queens, King and Queen, largely, mentioned, paranoid, paranoids, Political history, political leader, public schools, Queens, radically, scientists, voyager, voyagers
«Well, you know, like, I don't really give a fuck what the general public think.»
«If once the people become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, Judges and Governors, shall all become wolves. It seems to be the law of our general nature, in spite of individual exceptions.»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| Keywords:
Assemblies, congress, exceptions, general assembly, General Public, governors, governors and, inattentive, Judges, Public affairs, wolves
«I have ever been opposed to banks, - opposed to internal improvements by the general government, - opposed to distribution of public lands among the states, - opposed to taking the power from the hands of the people, - opposed to special monopolies,»
Author: Sam Houston
(General, Lawyer, Politician)
| Keywords:
Banks, distribution, General Government, General Public, improvements, internal, lands, monopolies, opposed, public lands, The General
«The general has dedicated himself so many times, he must feel like the cornerstone of a public building.»
Author: Adlai E. Stevenson
(Ambassador, Governor, Politician)
| Keywords:
cornerstone, cornerstones, General Public
«Scientists - the crowd that for dash and style make the general public look like the Bloomsbury set.»
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