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Letter "B" » brilliant
«To make a man perfectly happy tell him he works too hard, that he spends too much money, that he is ''misunderstood'' or that he is ''different''; none of this is necessarily complimentary, but it will flatter him infinitely more that merely telling him that he is brilliant, or noble, or wise, or good.»
Author: Helen Rowland
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brilliant, complimentary, flatter, flat out, infinitely, misunderstands, misunderstood, necessarily, noble, none, perfectly, spending money, spends, telling, too much, works
«We don't know when our name came into being or how some distant ancestor acquired it. We don't understand our name at all, we don't know its history and yet we bear it with exalted fidelity, we merge with it, we like it, we are ridiculously proud of it as if we had thought it up ourselves in a moment of brilliant inspiration.»
Author: Milan Kundera
(Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
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acquired, ancestor, brilliant, distant, exalted, fidelities, fidelity, in a moment, merge, merging, proud of, ridiculously
«You think I don't want to? It's those TV networks, Marge: they won't let me. One quality show after another, each one fresher and more brilliant than the last. If they only stumbled once, just gave us thirty minutes to ourselves, but they won't! They won't let me live!»
Author: Dan Castellaneta
(Actor, Writer)
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brilliant, fresher, networks, stumbled, The Network, thirty, Thirty one, TV show, TV shows
«We are a nation of communities... a brilliant diversity spread like stars, like a thousand points of light in a broad and peaceful sky.»
Author: George W. Bush
(President)
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brilliant, broad, communities, diversities, diversity, peaceful, points, spread
«To make a good salad is to be a brilliant diplomatist -- the problem is entirely the same in both cases. To know exactly how much oil one must put with one's vinegar.»
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