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«Politicians trim and tack in their quest for power, but they do so in order to get the wind of votes in their sails.»
Author: Ian Gilmour
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Politicians
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quest, quest for, tack, tacked, tacks, trim, trimmed, trimmer, trimmest, trimming, trims, votes, wind power
«The Moscow of these pageants is the old core city with its buildings of pastel hues and white trim that, with the season's continual dustings of snow, appear to be the work of confectioners.»
Author: Warren Hoge
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Cities
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Buildings, confectioner, confectioners, hues, Moscow, pageant, pageants, pastel, trim, trimmer, trimmest
«A disquieting era of genetic manipulation is coming, one that may revolutionize human capacities, and notions of health. If we treat moral scruples impatiently, as inherently retrograde in a scientifically advancing civilization, we will not be in moral trim when, soon, our very humanity depends on our being in trim.»
Author: George F. Will
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«All tr?des, their gear and tackle and trim.»
«Why trimmest thou thy way to seek love? therefore hast thou also taught the wicked ones thy ways.»
«To keep the body in good health is a duty, for otherwise we shall not be able to trim the lamp of wisdom, and keep our mind strong and clear. Water surrounds the lotus flower, but does not wet its petals.»
«Work continuously to trim the White House staff from your first day to your last. All the pressures are to the contrary.»
«We have lost the power even of imagining what the ancient idealization of poverty could have meant: the liberation of material attachments, the unbridled soul, the manlier indifference, the paying our way by what we are or do and not by what we have, the right to fling away our life at any moment irresponsibly -- the more athletic trim, in short, the moral fighting shape.»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
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athletic, attachments, fling, idealization, idealizations, imagining, in short, irresponsibly, liberation, manlier, trim, trimmer, trimmest, trimming, trims, unbridled
«Manhood is melted into courtesies, valor into compliment, and men are only turned into tongue, and trim ones, too.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
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compliment, courtesies, melted, trim, trimmed, trimmer, trimmest, trimming, trims, valor
«A Whig is properly what is called a Trimmer - that is, a coward to both sides of the question, who dare not be a knave nor an honest man, but is a sort of whiffing, shuffling, cunning, silly, contemptible, unmeaning negation of the two.»
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