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«Jazz is the big brother of the blues. If a guy's playing blues like we play, he's in high school. When he starts playing jazz it's like going on to college, to a school of higher learning.»
Author: B. B. King
| Keywords:
Big Blue, big brother, blues, high school, jazz, School of, The Big Blue, The Blues
«Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius»
«Cinema, radio, television, magazines are a school of inattention: people look without seeing, listen in without hearing.»
Author: Robert Bresson
| About:
Media
| Keywords:
cinema, hearing, inattention, listen in, magazines, radio, School of
«I, on the other hand, am a fully-rounded human being, with a degree from the University of Life, a diploma from the School of Hard Knocks, and three gold stars from the Kindergarten of Getting the Shit Kicked Out of Me»
Author: Rowan Atkinson
(Actor)
| Keywords:
diploma, diplomas, kicked, knocks, on the other hand, rounded, School of, shit, The school, the University, university
«A sense of curiosity is nature's original school of education.»
«In point of substantial merit the law school belongs in the modern university no more than a school of fencing or dancing»
Author: Thorstein Veblen
(Economist)
| Keywords:
fencing, law school, Modern School, School of, substantial
«Genuine morality is preserved only in the school of adversity; a state of continuous prosperity may easily prove a quick sand to virtue»
Author: Friedrich von Schiller
(Dramatist, Historian, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Adversity,
Morality,
Prosperity,
Virtue
| Keywords:
continuous, preserved, School of, The school
«Life is a school of probability»
Author: Walter Bagehot
(Analyst, Economist, Editor)
| About:
Life
| Keywords:
probability, School of
«As a graduate of the Zsa Zsa Gabor School of Creative mathematics, I honestly do not know how old I am»
«In the school of political projectors, I was but ill entertained, the professors appearing, in my judgment, wholly out of their senses; which is a scene that never fails to make me melancholy. These unhappy people were proposing schemes for persuading monarchs to choose favorites upon the score of their wisdom, capacity, and virtue; of teaching ministers to consult the public good; of rewarding merit, great abilities, and eminent services, of instructing princes to know their true interest, by placing it on the same foundation with that of their people; of choosing for employment persons qualified to exercise them; with many other wild impossible chimeras, that never entered before into the heart of man to conceive; and confirmed in me the old observation, that there is nothing so extravagant and irrational which some philosophers have not maintained for truth.»
Author: Jonathan Swift
(Author, Satirist)
| Keywords:
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