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«Government [is] operated by deeply embedded, hopelessly entangled bureaus where nothing is accomplished because the function of the bureau is to intercept every living idea and smother it.»
Author: Gerry Spence
| About:
Government
| Keywords:
bureau, bureaus, embed, embedded, embedding, entangle, entangled, entangling, hopelessly, intercept, intercepting, intercepts, operated, smother, smothered, smothering, smothers
«When we forgive evil we do not excuse it, we do not tolerate it, we do not smother it. We look the evil full in the face, call it what it is, let its horror shock and stun and enrage us, and only then do we forgive it.»
«We don't believe the nation is smothered with tainted Tylenol.»
«It is better for a woman to compete impersonally in society, as men do, than to compete for dominance in her own home with her husband, compete with her neighbors for empty status, and so smother her son that he cannot compete at all.»
Author: Betty Friedan
| Keywords:
compete, dominance, Her husband, impersonally, neighbors, smother, smothered, smothering, smothers, status
«I felt in my life very suffocated and smothered by my circumstance. Your life becomes what you believe. I was living in a house with my mom and my younger brother and we were all sharing rent and wasn't really making rent. Didn't get to eat, I scrape»
Author: Jewel
(Guitarist, Singer, Songwriter)
| About:
Life
| Keywords:
circumstance, mom, rent, scrape, scraped, scrapes, scrape by, scraping, sharing, smothered, smothering, smothers, suffocate, suffocated, suffocates, suffocating, younger
«Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.»
Author: Leo F. Buscaglia
| Keywords:
each other, grow, No One, shade, shaded, shading, smother, smothered, smothering, smothers, The Shades
«Crying is right at hand in the smothering dark, closed inside someone else, when you see how everything you can ever accomplish will end up as trash.»
Author: Chuck Palahniuk
(Journalist, Novelist, Satirist)
| Keywords:
at hand, closed, crying, end up, Everything You, smothered, smothering, smothers, trash, trashed, Trashing
«Make the most of your regrets; never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it till it comes to have a separate and integral interest. To regret deeply is to live afresh.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Regret
| Keywords:
afresh, integral, regrets, smother, smothered, smothering, smothers
«It is not my intention to do away with government. It is rather to make it work -- work with us, not over us; stand by our side, not ride on our back. Government can and must provide opportunity, not smother it; foster productivity, not stifle it.»
Author: Ronald Reagan
(President)
| Keywords:
do away with, Foster, productivity, ride away, Ride On, smother, smothered, smothering, stand by, stifle
«Ridicule often checks what is absurd, and fully as often smothers that which is noble.»
Author: Sir Walter Scott
(Biographer, Historian, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
absurd, checks, ridicule, smothered, smothering, smothers
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