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«Over the years, we have come to identify quality in a college not by whom it serves but by how many students it excludes. Let us not be a sacred priesthood protecting the temple, but rather the fulfillers of dreams.»
«Politics: the art of keeping as many balls as possible up in the air at one time - while protecting your own.»
Author: Sam Attlesey
| About:
Politics
| Keywords:
air, as many, at one time, balls, ball over, ball up, in the air, keeping, one time, On The Ball, protecting, the art, up in the air
«A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.»
Author: Amos Bronson Alcott
(Philosopher, Teacher)
| Keywords:
carcass, carcasses, corruption, decay, falls, protecting
«Animal rights activists gives disillusioned feminists an excuse to go back to being women protecting wee creatures without compromising their radical credentials»
Author: Florence King
| About:
Animals
| Keywords:
activist, activists, animal rights, compromising, credentials, disillusion, disillusioned, feminists, protecting, radical, The Wee, wee
«For several years I worried a lot about protecting an image, but today I have understood that the image cannot be preconceived»
«PAINTING, n. The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic. Formerly, painting and sculpture were combined in the same work: the ancients painted their statues. The only present alliance between the two arts is that the modern painter chisels his patrons.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
alliance, ancients, art critic, chisels, chisel in, combined, exposing, formerly, patrons, protecting, surfaces
«In the love of a brave and faithful man there is always a strain of maternal tenderness; he gives out again those beams of protecting fondness which were shed on him as he lay on his mother's knee»
Author: George Eliot
(Novelist)
| Keywords:
beaming, beams, fondness, his mother, knee, maternal, protecting, shed, strain, tenderness
«Painting is the art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| About:
Painting
| Keywords:
art critic, critic, exposing, flat, protecting, surfaces, The Critic
«If our lives are endangered by plots or violence or armed robbers or enemies, any and every method of protecting ourselves is morally right»
Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero
(Lawyer, Orator, Scholar, Statesman, Writer)
| Keywords:
endangered, protecting
«For God's sake, do not drag me into another war! I am worn down, and worn out, with crusading and defending Europe, and protecting mankind; I must think a little of myself»
Author: Sydney Smith
(Clergyman, Essayist, Wit)
| Keywords:
crusade, crusades, crusading, defending, drag, protecting, The Crusades
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