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«The problems seem so easy out there on the stump. Deficits shrink with a rhetorical flourish.»
Author: Hugh Sidey
| About:
Problems
| Keywords:
deficit, Deficits, rhetorical, shrink, stump, stumps
«The best time to listen to a politician is when he's on a stump on a street corner in the rain late at night when he's exhausted. Then he doesn't lie.»
Author: Theodore H. White
(Historian, Journalist, Novelist)
| About:
Lies,
Listening,
Politicians,
Politics
| Keywords:
corner, exhausted, politician, street corner, stump, stumps
«If you wish in this world to advance your merits you're bound to enhance; you must stir it and stump it, and blow your own trumpet, or, trust me, you haven't a chance.»
«He is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation.»
Author: Adlai E. Stevenson
(Ambassador, Governor, Politician)
| Keywords:
conservation, cut, cut down, mount, mounting, mounts, mount up, politician, redwood, redwoods, stump, stumps
«A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation.»
Author: Adlai E. Stevenson
(Ambassador, Governor, Politician)
| About:
Politicians
| Keywords:
conservation, cut down, hypocrite, mount, redwood, redwoods, stump, stumps
«And whereas they commanded to leave the stump of the tree roots; thy kingdom shall be sure unto thee, after that thou shalt have known that the heavens do rule.»
«I saw in the visions of my head upon my bed, and, behold, a watcher and an holy one came down from heaven; / He cried aloud, and said thus, Hew down the tree, and cut off his branches, shake off his leaves, and scatter his fruit: let the beasts get away from under it, and the fowls from his branches: / Nevertheless leave the stump of his roots in the earth, even with a band of iron and brass, in the tender grass of the field; and let it be wet with the dew of heaven, and let his portion be with the beasts in the grass of the earth: / Let his heart be changed from man's, and let a beast's heart be given unto him; and let seven times pass over him.»
Author: Bible
| Keywords:
aloud, brass band, brass bands, field of vision, fowls, grass roots, hew, pass over, shake off, stump, stumps, under it, watcher, watchers
«And whereas the king saw a watcher and an holy one coming down from heaven, and saying, Hew the tree down, and destroy it; yet leave the stump of the roots thereof in the earth, even with a band of iron and brass, in the tender grass of the field; and let it be wet with the dew of heaven, and let his portion be with the beasts of the field, till seven times pass over him; / This is the interpretation, O king, and this is the decree of the most High, which is come upon my lord the king: / That they shall drive thee from men, and thy dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field, and they shall make thee to eat grass as oxen, and they shall wet thee with the dew of heaven, and seven times shall pass over thee, till thou know that the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will.»
Author: Bible
| Keywords:
brass band, brass bands, decree, grass roots, stump, stumps, watcher, watchers
«A man who sees another man on the street corner with only a stump for an arm will be so shocked the first time he'll give him sixpence. But the second time it'll only be a three penny bit. And if he sees him a third time, he'll have him cold-bloodedly handed over to the police.»
Author: Bertolt Brecht
| Keywords:
cold-bloodedly, penny, second time, sixpence, street corner, stump, stumps, The Police
«You have nobody to blame but yourself if you stumble more than once over the same stump»
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