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«It was a hole in one contest and I had a three.»
«Our contest is not only whether we ourselves shall be free, but whether there shall be left to mankind an asylum on earth for civil and religious liberty»
Author: Samuel Adams
(Politician)
| About:
Freedom
| Keywords:
asylum, asylums, Be Free, civil, civil liberties, civil liberty, contest, contested, Contests, religious liberty
«I think he [George W. Bush] has a warm, engaging personality. But, you know, the presidency is more than just a popularity contest.»
Author: Al Gore
(Vice President)
| Keywords:
contest, engaging, George W, popularity, popularity contest, presidency, the presidency
«I like intelligent women. When you go out, it shouldn't be a staring contest.»
«I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an impalpable grayness, with nothing underfoot, with nothing around, without spectators, without clamor, without glory, without the great desire of victory, without the great fear of defeat.»
Author: Joseph Conrad
| Keywords:
clamor, clamoring, contest, grayness, Great Fear, impalpable, spectators, underfoot, unexciting, wrestled, wrestles
«It should be the thing never to mention unfairness of judging when defeated in a contest.»
Author: Sir Robert Baden-Powell
(Army Officer)
| Keywords:
contest, contested, Contests, defeated, judging, mention, unfairness
«LOGOMACHY, n. A war in which the weapons are words and the wounds punctures in the swim-bladder of self-esteem --a kind of contest in which, the vanquished being unconscious of defeat, the victor is denied the reward of success.'Tis said by divers of the scholar-men That poor Salmasius died of Milton's pen. Alas! we cannot know if this is true, For reading Milton's wit we perish too.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
bladder, bladders, contest, divers, puncture, punctured, punctures, swim bladder, The Victor, vanquished
«Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| About:
Politics
| Keywords:
contest, masquerade, masquerades, masquerading, private interest, Public affairs, strife
«I know [patriotism] exists, and I know it has done much in the present contest. But a great and lasting war can never be supported on this principle alone. It must be aided by a prospect of interest, or some reward.»
«I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just, that it may become probable by supernatural interference! The Almighty has no attribute which can take side with us in such a contest.»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| Keywords:
Almighty, attribute, contest, interference, My Country, probable, reflect, supernatural, supernatural being, the Almighty, tremble
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