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«Love-matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar.»
«It would indeed be the ultimate tragedy if the history of the human race proved to be nothing more noble than the story of an ape playing with a box of matches on a petrol dump.»
«America is not only big and rich, it is mysterious; and its capacity for the humorous or ironical concealment of its interests matches that of the legendary inscrutable Chinese.»
Author: David Riesman
| About:
America and Americans,
Country,
Humor
| Keywords:
Chinese, concealment, humorous, inscrutable, ironical, legendary, matches
«Leaders create an environment which everyone has the opportunity to do work which matches his potential capability and for which an equitable differential reward is provided.»
Author: Elliott Jaques
| Keywords:
capability, differential, do work, environment, equitable, leaders, matches, potential, provided
«And the matches gave such a brilliant light that it was brighter than at noon-day: never formerly had the grandmother been so beautiful and so tall. She took the little maiden, on her arm, and both flew in brightness and in joy so high, so very high, and then above was neither cold, nor hunger, nor anxiety--they were with God.»
Author: Hans Christian Andersen
(Author)
| Keywords:
brighter, brightness, flew, formerly, grandmother, high noon, maiden, matches, noon, tall
«Jimmy Connors plays two tennis matches and winds up with $850,000, and Muhammad Ali fights one bout and winds up with five million bucks. Me, I play one-hundred and ninety games, and I'm overpaid!»
Author: Johnny Bench
| Keywords:
Ali, bout, bouts, bucks, Connors, fights, jimmies, jimmy, Jimmy Connors, matches, Muhammad, Muhammad Ali, one hundred, overpaid, overpay, overpaying, tennis
«I feel the happiest when I can light my American cigarettes with Soviet matches.»
«I let my racket do the talking. That's what I am all about, really. I just go out and win tennis matches.»
«European toilet paper is made from the same material that Americans use for roofing, which is why Europeans tend to remain standing throughout soccer matches.»
Author: Dave Barry
(Humorist, Writer)
| Keywords:
European, Europeans, matches, roofing, roofing material, soccer, toilet, toilet paper
«Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| About:
Family
| Keywords:
matches, so-called
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