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Letter "D" » desk
«Get your feet off my desk, get out of here, you [Steve Jobs] stink, and we're not going to buy your product [the Apple Computer].»
«A desk is a dangerous place from which to watch the world»
Author: John Le Carre
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«He smiles with the faraway, sea-remembering smile of all desk admirals.»
«County library? Reference desk, please. Hello? Yes, I need a word definition. Well, that's the problem. I don't know how to spell it and I'm not allowed to say it. Could you just rattle off all the swear words you know and I'll stop you when...Hello?»
Author: Calvin & Hobbes
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«At the desk where I sit, I have learned one great truth. The answer for all our national problems - the answer for all the problems of the world - come to a single word. That word is education»
«Happiness is a very small desk and a very big wastebasket»
«A molehill man is a pseudo-busy executive who comes to work at 9 AM and finds a molehill on his desk. He has until 5 PM to make this molehill into a mountain. An accomplished molehill man will often have his mountain finished before lunch.»
«A book calls for pen, ink, and a writing desk; today the rule is that pen, ink, and a writing desk call for a book.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
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call for, desk, ink, pen, rule book, writing desk
«After all, most writing is done away from the typewriter, away from the desk. I'd say it occurs in the quiet, silent moments, while you're walking or shaving or playing a game, or whatever, or even talking to someone you're not vitally interested in.»
Author: Henry Miller
(Author, Writer)
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desk, occurs, shaved, shaves, shaving, talking to, The Quiet, typewriter, vitally, writing desk
«All the waste in a year from a nuclear power plant can be stored under a desk.»
Author: Ronald Reagan
(President)
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desk, nuclear, nuclear power, Nuclear power plant, power plant, stored
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