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«Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.»
«It was as simple as this: The Kennedys had a feeling of being heightened and it rubbed off on the people who came in contact with them. They were a unit.»
Author: Charles Spalding
| About:
Presidency
| Keywords:
heightened, Kennedys, rubbed, rub off, unit
«[He] is salt rubbed in the wounds of the nation's conscience. He is a scream of pain. He is an accusing finger thrust in the face of white America. He is a fierce, brilliant light illuminating the unspeakable and the shameful.»
Author: Fern Marja Eckman
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accusing, brilliant, fierce, finger, illuminating, rubbed, salt, scream, shameful, The Nation, thrust, unspeakable
«Don't listen to those who say, you taking too big a chance. Michelangelo would have painted the Sistine floor, and it would surely be rubbed out by today. Most important, don't listen when the little voice of fear inside you rears its ugly head and says. they all smarter than you out there. They're more talented, they're taller, blonder, prettier, luckier, and they have connections. I firmly believe that if you follow a path that interests you, not to the exclusion of love, sensitivity, and cooperation with others, but with the strength of conviction that you can move others by your own efforts, and do not make success or failure the criteria by which you live, the chances are you'll be a person worthy of your own respects.»
Author: Neil Simon
(Playwright)
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«When she started to play, Steinway came down personally and rubbed his name off the piano.»
«Nobody likes having salt rubbed into their wounds, even if it is the salt of the earth»
«Wisdom is like electricity. There is no permanently wise man, but men capable of wisdom, who, being put into certain company, or other favorable conditions, become wise for a short time, as glasses rubbed acquire electric power for a while.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
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acquire, An electric, conditions, electric, electricity, electric company, electric power, favorable, for a while, glasses, permanently, rubbed, rubbing, rub up
«Fire is born from wood (as two sticks are rubbed together), but then devours its parents. »
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