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«Democrats were quick to point out that President Bush's budget creates a 1 trillion dollar deficit. The White House quickly responded with 'Hey, look over there, it's Saddam Hussein.'»
Author: Craig Kilborn
| Keywords:
a trillion, budget, deficit, Deficits, Democrats, dollar, Hussein, look-over, point out, President Bush, responded, Saddam, Saddam Hussein, The White House, trillion, trillions, White House
«The world's literature and folklore are full of stories that point out how futile it can be to seek happiness. Rather, happiness is a blessing that comes to you as you go along; a treasure that you incidentally find.»
«Actually, all education is self-education. A teacher is only a guide, to point out the way, and no school, no matter how excellent, can give you education. What you receive is like the outlines in a child?s coloring book. You must fill in the colors yourself.»
Author: Louis L'Amour
| About:
Life
| Keywords:
coloring, coloring book, colors, excellent, fill in, guide, outlines, Outlining, point out, school teacher, self-education
«If forced to travel on an airplane, try and get in the cabin with the Captain, so you can keep an eye on him and nudge him if he falls asleep or point out any mountains looming up ahead»
Author: Mike Harding
| About:
Travel
| Keywords:
airplane, asleep, cabin, cabins, captain, fall asleep, keep an eye on, loom, looming, looms, nudge, point out, The Cabin
«A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for the desire of the end will point out the means»
Author: William Hazlitt
(Writer)
| About:
Passion
| Keywords:
end point, ensure, ensures, ensuring, point out, strong point
«Folks, let me point out something to you, because for a lot of people in Washington, they could not be more surprised if Fidel Castro came loping through on the back of a hippopotamus [this Election Night].»
«It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But the half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor.»
Author: Neil Gaiman
(Children's author, Comics writer, Journalist, Novelist, Screenwriter)
| About:
Clothes
| Keywords:
emperor, half-wit, point out, prerogative, prerogatives, The Emperor, wits
«RAREBIT, n. A Welsh rabbit, in the speech of the humorless, who point out that it is not a rabbit. To whom it may be solemnly explained that the comestible known as toad-in-a-hole is really not a toad, and that _riz-de-veau a la financiere_ is not the smile of a calf prepared after the recipe of a she banker.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
banker, calf, comestible, explained, humorless, known as, point out, rabbit, rabbit hole, rarebit, solemnly, toad, veau, Welsh, Welsh rabbit
«Perhaps in His wisdom the Almighty is trying to show us that a leader may chart the way, may point out the road to lasting peace, but that many leaders and many peoples must do the building.»
Author: Eleanor Roosevelt
(Diplomat, First Lady, Humanitarian)
| Keywords:
Almighty, peoples, point out, the Almighty, The Building
«Any belief in Creators or Purpose is wishful thinking. And when you point out that perhaps ALL thinking is wishful, reactions of intense irritation give evidence that we are not dealing with logic but with faith.»
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