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«I have low self-esteem, but I express it the healthy way... by eating a box of Double-Stuff Oreos.»
«It's human nature to keep doing something as long as it's pleasurable and you can succeed at it - which is why the world population continues to double every 40 years»
«It is a double pleasure to deceive the deceiver»
«I won't not use no double negatives»
«LOGIC, n. The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding. The basic of logic is the syllogism, consisting of a major and a minor premise and a conclusion --thus:_Major Premise_: Sixty men can do a piece of work sixty times as quickly as one man._Minor Premise_: One man can dig a posthole in sixty seconds; therefore --_Conclusion_: Sixty men can dig a posthole in one second. This may be called the syllogism arithmetical, in which, by combining logic and mathematics, we obtain a double certainty and are twice blessed.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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«Not to be ashamed of sin is to sin double»
«On the death of a friend, we should consider that the fates through confidence have devolved on us the task of a double living, that we have henceforth to fulfill the promise of our friend's life also, in our own, to the world.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
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Death of, double, Fates, fulfill, henceforth, the Fates, The Task
«I guess I kinda lost control, because in the middle of the play I ran up and lit the evil puppet villain on fire. No, I didn't. Just kidding. I just said that to help illustrate one of the human emotions, which is freaking out. Another emotion is greed, as when you kill someone for money, or something like that. Another emotion is generosity, as when you pay someone double what he paid for his stupid puppet.»
Author: Jack Handy
(Writer)
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«I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
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all the time, double, have-not, hypocrisies, hypocrisy, leading, pretending, wick, wicked, wickedest
«One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!»
Author: Winston Churchill
(Author, Orator, Prime Minister)
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