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«Give me a lever long enough, and a prop strong enough, I can single-handed move the world.»
«I wouldn't know how to handle serenity if somebody handed it to me on a plate.»
«I was handed a chocolate bar and an M-1 rifle and told to go kill Hitler.»
Author: Jack Kirby
(Cartoonist, Writer)
| Keywords:
chocolate bar, handed, Hitler, M-1, M-1 rifle, m, rifle
«I've always tried to be fair, even-handed, not an advocate for any group.»
«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
«1)I admit it, you are better than I am. 2)Then why are you smiling? 1)Because I know something you don't know. 2)And what is that? 1)I am not left handed.»
«It is a fair, even-handed, noble adjustment of things, that while there is infection in disease and sorrow, there is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good-humor»
«Last of all Hurin stood alone. Then he cast aside his shield, and wielded an axe two-handed; and it is sung that the axe smoked in the black blood of the troll-guard of Gothmog until it withered, and each time that he slew Hurin cried 'Aure entuluva!»
«It is our task in our time and in our generation, to hand down undiminished to those who come after us, as was handed down to us by those who went before, the natural wealth and beauty which is ours.»
Author: John Fitzgerald Kennedy
(President)
| Keywords:
come after, handed-down, handed, hand down, undiminished
«In these great times which I knew when they were this small; which will become small again, provided they have time left for it in these times in which things are happening that could not be imagined and in which what can no longer be imagined must happen, for if one could imagine it, it would not happen; in these serious times which have died laughing at the thought that they might become serious; which, surprised by their own tragedy, are reaching for diversion and, catching themselves red-handed, are groping for words... in these times you should not expect any words of my own from me -- none but these words which barely manage to prevent silence from being misinterpreted.»
Author: Karl Kraus
(Critic, Journalist, Playwright, Poet)
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barely, catching, diversion, diversions, groped, grope for, groping, handed, happening, have died, imagined, In These Times, manage, of my own, reaching, red-handed
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