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«I act as a sponge. I soak it up and squeeze it out in ink every two weeks.»
«It is impossible for a stranger traveling through the United States to tell from the appearance of the people or the country whether he is in Toledo, Ohio, or Portland, Oregon. Ninety million Americans cut their hair in the same way, eat each morning exactly the same breakfast, tie up the small girls curls with precisely the same kind of ribbon fashioned into bows exactly alike; and in every way all try to look and act as much like all the others as they can.»
«Law and religion are two forces which govern the conduct of men. At times they act as handmaids to each other. At other times they act as check and counter-check. Of the two forces, Law is personal while religion is impersonal. Law being personal it is capable of being unjust and iniquitous. But religion being impersonal, it can be impartial, it is capable of defeating the inequity committed by law. Religion is believed to ennoble man and not degrade him. Hinduism is an exception.»
Author: B. R. Ambedkar
(Politician)
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act as, by law, counter, defeating, degrade, ennoble, ennobles, handmaids, Hinduism, impartial, impersonal, inequities, inequity, iniquitous, unjust
«MORAL, adj. Conforming to a local and mutable standard of right. Having the quality of general expediency.It is sayd there be a raunge of mountaynes in the Easte, on one syde of the which certayn conducts are immorall, yet on the other syde they are holden in good esteeme; wherebye the mountayneer is much conveenyenced, for it is given to him to goe downe eyther way and act as it shall suite his moode, withouten offence. --_Gooke's Meditations_»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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act as, adj, conducts, conforming, mutable, offence, suite
«It is a well-known fact that although the public is fine when taken individually, when it forms itself into large groups, it tends to act as though it has one partially consumed Pez tablet for a brain.»
Author: Dave Barry
(Humorist, Writer)
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«Misfortunes are, in morals, what bitters are in medicine: each is at first disagreeable; but as the bitters act as corroborants to the stomach, so adversity chastens and ameliorates the disposition»
Author: French Proverb
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Adversity,
Medicine,
Misfortune,
Morality
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act as, ameliorates, ameliorating, bitters, chasten, chastened, chastening, chastens, disagreeable, disposition, misfortunes, stomach
«If a good person does you wrong, act as though you had not noticed it. They will make note of this and not remain in your debt long.»
«It is necessary that one who really and truly fights for the right, if he is to survive even for a short time, shall act as a private man, not as a public man»
«I have often been afraid, but I wouldn't give in to it. I made myself act as though I was not afraid, and gradually my fear disappeared.»
Author: Theodore Roosevelt
(President)
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act as, disappeared, disappearing, give in, gradually, though, to it
«If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.»
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