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«Global poverty is a powder keg that could be ignited by our indifference.»
Author: Bill Clinton (President) | Keywords: global, ignite, ignited, ignites, igniting, indifference, keg, poverty, powder, powdered, powders, powder keg
«A ship is always referred to as she because it costs so much to keep one in paint and powder»
Author: Chester W. Nimitz | Keywords: costs, powder, powdered, powders, referred, referred to, refers, refers to, ship
«Africa is a cruel country; it takes your heart and grinds it into powdered stone-and no one minds.»
Author: Elspeth Huxley | Keywords: Africa, grinds, powdered, powders
«I do not know if you remember the tale of the girl who saves the ship under mutiny by sitting on the powder barrel with her lighted torch and all the time knowing that it is empty? This has seemed to me a charming image of the women of my time. There they were, keeping the world in order by sitting on the mystery of life, and knowing themselves that there was no mystery.»
Author: Isak Dinesen (Writer) | Keywords: barrel, barreling, charming, kept woman, lighted, mutinies, mutiny, powder, powdered, powders, saves, seemed, ship, sitting, tale, The Women, torch, torches
«Put your trust in God; but be sure to keep your powder dry»
Author: Oliver Cromwell | Keywords: dry, powder, powdered, powders
«I don't like my hockey sticks touching other sticks, and I don't like them crossing one another, and I kind of have them hidden in the corner. I put baby powder on the ends. I think it's essentially a matter of taking care of what takes care of you.»
Author: Wayne Gretzky | Keywords: baby powder, crossing, essentially, hockey, powder, powdered, powders, sticks, touching
«The only success worth one's powder was success in the line of one's idiosyncrasy . what was talent but the art of being completely whatever one happened to be?»
Author: Henry James | Keywords: idiosyncrasies, idiosyncrasy, powder, powdered, powders
«Erection is chiefly caused by parsnips, artichokes, turnips, asparagus, candied ginger, acorns bruised to a powder drunk in muscatel»
Author: Aristotle (Philosopher, Physician, Scientist) | About: Words | Keywords: acorns, artichoke, artichokes, asparagus, bruised, candied, chiefly, erection, erections, ginger, muscatel, powder, powdered, turnip, turnips
«I got this powdered water - now I don't know what to add.»
Author: Stephen Wright (Actor, Writer) | Keywords: ADD, powdered, powders
«These Arabs, the man Mahomet, and that one century, - is it not as if a spark had fallen, one spark, on a world of what proves explosive powder, blazes heaven-high from Delhi to Granada! I said, the Great man was always as lightning out of Heaven; th»
Author: Thomas Carlyle (Essayist, Historian) | Keywords: Arabs, blazes, Delhi, explosive, explosives, Granada, high explosives, lightning, Mahomet, powder, powdered, powders, proves, spark
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