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«When I speak of the gifted listener, I am thinking of the nonmusician primarily, of the listener who intends to retain his amateur status. It is the thought of just such a listener that excites the composer in me.»
«We cannot allow the American flag to be shot at anywhere on earth if we are to retain our respect and prestige»
Author: Barry Goldwater
(Politician, Senator)
| About:
Respect
| Keywords:
American flag, flag, prestige, retain
«The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.»
Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
(Writer)
| About:
Ability,
Intelligence,
Testing
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first rate, First test, intelligence test, in the mind, opposed, rate, retain, The test
«To retain respect for sausages and laws, one must not watch them in the making.»
Author: Otto von Bismarck
(Chancellor, Founder, Prime Minister)
| About:
Law and lawyers
| Keywords:
retain, sausages
«The screen is a magic medium. It has such power that it can retain interest as it conveys emotions and moods that no other art form can hope to tackle.»
Author: Stanley Kubrick
(Film Director, Writer)
| About:
Emotion,
Magic,
Television
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art form, conveys, medium, moods, retain, screen, tackle, tackled, tackles, tackling, the screen
«Then said his wife unto him, Dost thou still retain thine integrity? curse God, and die.»
«The three great apostles of practical atheism, that make converts without persecuting, and retain them without preaching, are wealth, health, and power.»
Author: Charles Caleb Colton
| About:
Power,
Religion
| Keywords:
apostles, converts, persecuting, preaching, retain, The Apostle, The three
«What is it we all seek for in an election? To answer its real purposes, you must first posses the means of knowing the fitness of your man; and then you must retain some hold upon him by personal obligation or dependence»
Author: Edmund Burke
(Philosopher, Statesman)
| About:
Elections
| Keywords:
dependence, fitness, posse, posses, retain
«The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
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arms, last resort, protect, resort, resorted, resorting, resort to, retain, retaining, Right to bear arms, strongest, The Last Resort, tyranny
«There are in our existence spots of timeThat with distinct pre-eminence retainA renovating virtue, whence . . . our mindsAre nourished and invisibly repaired.»
Author: William Wordsworth
(Poet)
| Keywords:
eminence, invisibly, nourished, renovate, renovating, repaired, retain, spots
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