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«Charming people live up to the very edge of their charm, and behave as outrageously as the world lets them.»
Author: Logan Pearsall Smith
(Writer)
| About:
Charm
| Keywords:
behave, charm, charming, edge, Edge of, lets, live up to, outrageously
«A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history-with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila»
Author: Mitch Ratcliffe
| About:
Computers
| Keywords:
exceptions, faster, handgun, handguns, Human history, invention, lets, tequila
«A James Cagney love scene is one where he lets the other guy live.»
«A compassionate conservative is someone who electrocutes juveniles but lets them have a last 'make a wish'»
Author: Garrison Keillor
| Keywords:
compassionate, conservative, electrocute, electrocutes, juvenile, juveniles, lets
«He who is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death»
«For the ordinary man is passive. Within a narrow circle (home life, and perhaps the trade unions or local politics) he feels himself master of his fate, but against major events he is as helpless as against the elements. So far from endeavoring to influence the future, he simply lies down and lets things happen to him.»
Author: George Orwell
(Essayist, Novelist)
| Keywords:
circle, elements, endeavoring, helpless, lets, local, major, narrow, passive, The Elements, trade, trade union, Trade unions, unions
«For much of the female half of the world, food is the first signal of our inferiority. It lets us know that our own families may consider female bodies to be less deserving, less needy, less valuable.»
Author: Gloria Steinem
(Activist, Writer)
| Keywords:
bodies, deserving, families, female, female body, inferiority, lets, let us know, needy, signal, signaling
«Every man who is high up loves to think that he has done it all himself; and the wife smiles, and lets it go at that.»
Author: James Matthew Barrie
(Dramatist, Novelist)
| About:
Marriage,
Men and Women,
Smile
| Keywords:
high up, lets, smiles
«A friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself.»
«A man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore»
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