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«Why should I apologize because God throws in crystal chandeliers, mahogany floors, and the best construction in the world?»
«When we are sick, we want an uncommon doctor; when we have a construction job to do, we want an uncommon engineer, and when we are at war, we want an uncommon general. It is only when we get into politics that we are satisfied with the common man.»
Author: Herbert Hoover
(President)
| Keywords:
common man, construction, constructions, doctor, engineer, get into, uncommon
«We are glorious accidents of an unpredictable process with no drive to complexity, not the expected results of evolutionary principles that yearn to produce a creature capable of understanding the mode of its own necessary construction.»
Author: Stephen Jay Gould
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accidents, complexity, construction, constructions, evolutionary, expected, glorious, mode, unpredictable, yearn
«WORSHIP, n. Homo Creator's testimony to the sound construction and fine finish of Deus Creatus. A popular form of abjection, having an element of pride.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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abjection, construction, form of worship, homo
«When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service. They will become flatterers instead of legislators; the instruments, not the guides, of the people.»
Author: Edmund Burke
(Philosopher, Statesman)
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auction, bidder, bidders, construction, flatterers, guides, legislators
«Whatever harsh criticisms may be passed on the construction of her sentences, she at least possesses that one touch of vulgarity that makes the whole world kin.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
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construction, constructions, criticisms, harsh, kin, possesses, sentences, vulgarity
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