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«There it stands ablaze, like a slab of fire, with its parade of white flagstaffs gleaming in the street light, and the humped black limousines patient at the door.»
«We can no longer allow multinationals to parade as agents of progress and democracy in the newspapers, even as they subvert it at the workplace.»
Author: John J. Sweeney
| Keywords:
agents, even as, parade, subvert, subverted, subverting, subverts, workplace, workplaces
«With the greater part of rich people, the chief enjoyment of riches consists in the parade of riches»
Author: Adam Smith
| Keywords:
parade
«The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting goals and achieving them. Even the most tedious chore will become endurable as you parade through each day convinced that every task, no matter how menial or boring, brings you closer to fulfilling your dreams.»
Author: Og Mandino
(Essayist, Psychologist)
| Keywords:
achieving, As You, boring, brings, chore, closer, close set, convinced, convinces, dreams, each day, endurable, fulfilling, gains, goals, Goal setting, habit, half, halves, matter, menial, no matter, parade, paraded, parading, setting, settings, Set Your Goals, task, tedious, victory, won
«The one thing I never want to see again is a military parade. When I resigned from the army and went to a farm I was happy. When the rebellion came, I returned to the service because it was a duty. I had no thought of rank; all I did was try and make»
Author: Ulysses S. Grant
(President)
| About:
Military
| Keywords:
farm, military rank, military service, parade, rank, rebellion, resigned, returned, the rebellion, The Service
«The elephant has a thick skin, a head full of ivory, and as everyone who has seen a circus parade knows, proceeds best by grasping the tail of its predecessor.»
Author: Adlai E. Stevenson
(Ambassador, Governor, Politician)
| About:
Animals
| Keywords:
circus, elephant, ivory, parade, predecessor, proceeds, The Circus, The Elephant, thick, thick skin
«When I do something directly political, even if [an audience] doesn't agree with it, if it's funny and true, they gotta give it up. . . . Stand-up is more personal; a monologue is standing on the corner watching the parade go by and making wisecracks about it.»
Author: Bill Maher
(Actor, Comedian, Producer, Writer)
| Keywords:
directly, go by, monologue, monologues, parade, paraded, parading, stand up, wisecrack, wisecracking, wisecracks
«We are becoming like cats, slyly parasitic, enjoying an indifferent domesticity. Nice and snug in the social, our historic passions have withdrawn into the glow of an artificial coziness, and our half-closed eyes now seek little other than the peaceful parade of television pictures.»
Author: Jean Baudrillard
| Keywords:
coziness, domesticity, glow, historic, parade, parasitic, slyly, snug, withdrawn
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