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«It is a very sobering feeling to be up in space and realize that one's safety factor was determined by the lowest bidder on a government contract»
Author: Alan Shepherd
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bidder, bidders, contract, contracted, contracting, determined, factor, lowest, safety, safety factor, sobering, space
«It's a pretty sure thing that the player's bat is what speaks loudest when it's contract time, but there are moments when the glove has the last word.»
Author: Brooks Robinson
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Baseball
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at bats, bat, batted, contract, contracted, contracting, glove, gloved, gloves, last word, loudest, player, Pretty Things, sure thing, The Last Word, The Player
«Society is indeed a contract. It is a partnership in all science; a partnership in all art; a partnership in every virtue, and in all perfection. As the ends of such a partnership cannot be obtained in many generations, it becomes a partnership not only between those who are living, but between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born.»
Author: Edmund Burke
(Philosopher, Statesman)
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be born, contract, contracted, contracting, dead end, Dead Ends, generations, obtained, partnership, partnerships
«A woman's flattery may inflate a man's head a little; but her criticism goes straight to his heart, and contracts it so that it can never again hold quite as much love for her»
Author: Helen Rowland
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Criticism,
Flattery,
Heart,
Love,
Men and Women
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«Had it not been for you, I should have remained what I was when we first met, a prejudiced, narrow-minded being, with contracted sympathies and false knowledge, wasting my life on obsolete trifles, and utterly insensible to the privilege of living in this wondrous age of change and progress.»
Author: Benjamin Disraeli
(Novelist, Prime Minister)
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contracted, insensible, narrow-minded, obsolete, prejudiced, remained, sympathies, trifles, wasting, wondrous
«In lazy apathy let stoics boast Their virtue fixed: 'tis fixed as in a frost; Contracted all, retiring to the breast; But strength of mind is exercise, not rest»
«Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.»
«I wish to be cremated. One tenth of my ashes shall be given to my agent, as written in our contract.»
Author: Groucho Marx
(Actor, Comedian, Singer)
| About:
Death and dying
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agent, be given, contract, contracted, contracting, cremate, cremated, one-tenth, tenth, The Agent, written
«Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.»
«As any action or posture long continued will distort and disfigure the limbs; so the mind likewise is crippled and contracted by perpetual application to the same set of ideas»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
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contracted, crippled, disfigure, disfigured, limbs
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