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Letter "H" » hostile
«Junk bonds are the Holy Grail for hostile takeovers.»
Author: Roger Miller (Salomon Brothers Inc)
(Business Executive)
| Keywords:
bonds, grail, Holy Grail, hostile, hostile takeover, junk, takeover, takeovers
«I gave up on new poetry myself 30 years ago when most of it began to read like coded messages passing between lonely aliens in a hostile world.»
«I have learned from experience that, in the bluff and counterbluff of world politics, to draw a hostile war lord as a horrible monster is to play his game. What he doesn't like is being shown as a silly ass.»
Author: Sir David Low
(Cartoonist)
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War
| Keywords:
bluff, bluffer, game show, Game shows, horrible, hostile, monster, shown, silly
«Life's splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. It is there, though, not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If you summon it by the right word, by its right name, it will come.»
«One can say of language that it is potentially the only human home, the only dwelling place that cannot be hostile to man.»
«Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.»
«Parliament is not a congress of ambassadors from different and hostile interests; which interests each must maintain, as an agent and advocate, against other agents and advocates; but parliament is a deliberative assembly of one nation, with one interest, that of the whole; where, not local purposes, not local prejudices ought to guide, but the general good, resulting from the general reason of the whole. You choose a member indeed; but when you have chosen him, he is not a member of Bristol, but he is a member of parliament.»
Author: Edmund Burke
(Philosopher, Statesman)
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advocate, advocates, agent, agents, ambassadors, assembly, Bristol, congress, Congress of, deliberative, general assembly, general interest, hostile, local, member, Member of Parliament, One Nation, parliament, parliaments, prejudices, purposes, resulting, The Ambassadors, The General
«No loss by flood and lightening, no destruction of cities and temples by the hostile forces of nature, has deprived man of so many noble lives and impulses as those which his intolerance has destroyed»
Author: Helen Keller
(Author, Educator)
| Keywords:
cities, deprived, destroyed, destruction, flood, Forces of Nature, Force of Nature, hostile, impulses, intolerance, lightened, lightening, lightens, lighten up, loss, noble, temples
«Our only hope today lies in our ability to recapture the revolutionary spirit and go into a sometimes hostile world declaring eternal hostility to poverty, racism, and militarism.»
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Baptist Minister, Civil-Rights Leader)
| Keywords:
declaring, go into, hostile, hostility, militarism, racism, recapture, recaptured, revolutionary
«In the face of unjust criticism we can become bitter or better; upset or understanding; hostile or humble; furious or forgiving»
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