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«The catch phrase positively rejoices in being a formula, an accepted gambit, a ready-made reaction.»
Author: John Gross
| Keywords:
catch phrase, formula, gambit, phrase, positively, Ready made, rejoices, The Catch
«There is something ridiculous and even quite indecent in an individual claiming to be happy. Still more a people or a nation making such a claim. The pursuit of happiness... is without any question the most fatuous which could possibly be undertaken. This lamentable phrase ''the pursuit of happiness'' is responsible for a good part of the ills and miseries of the modern world.»
Author: Malcolm Muggeridge
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a people, claiming, fatuous, good part, ills, indecent, lamentable, miseries, modern world, phrase, The Pursuit of Happiness, undertaken
«The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, 'Let no one be called happy till his death;' to which I would add, 'Let no one, till his death, be called unhappy.'»
Author: Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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Death and dying,
Happiness
| Keywords:
grandly, Greeks, phrase, the Greeks, tragic
«I don't know why you use a fancy French word like detente when there's a good English phrase for it-cold war.»
«I think no woman I have had ever gave me so sweet a moment, or at so light a price, as the moment I owe to a newly heard musical phrase.»
«There is no phrase without a double meaning»
Author: African Proverb
| Keywords:
double, doubles, double over, doubling, meaning, phrase, phrased, phrasing, There is no
«Of all the horrid, hideous notes of woe, Sadder than owl-songs or the midnight blast, Is that portentous phrase, 'I told you so»
«The minute a phrase, becomes current, it becomes an apology for not thinking accurately to the end of the sentence.»
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
(Humorist, Physician, Poet, Professor, Writer)
| Keywords:
accurately, apologies, apology, phrase
«There are certain things that are fundamental to human fulfillment. The essence of these needs is captured in the phrase 'to live, to love, to learn, to leave a legacy'. The need to live is our physical need for such things as food, clothing, shelter, economical well-being, health. The need to love is our social need to relate to other people, to belong, to love and to be loved. The need to learn is our mental need to develop and to grow. And the need to leave a legacy is our spiritual need to have a sense of meaning, purpose, personal congruence, and contribution»
Author: Stephen R. Covey
| Keywords:
clothing, congruence, contribution, economical, fulfillment, health food, human health, legacy, phrase, physical thing, relate, sense of purpose, shelter, well-being
«Rude am I in my speech,And little blessed with the soft phrase of peace.»
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