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«History is strewn with the wrecks of nations which have gained a little progressiveness at the cost of a great deal of hard manliness, and have thus prepared themselves for destruction as soon as the movements of the world gave a chance for it.»
Author: Walter Bagehot
(Analyst, Economist, Editor)
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manliness, Movements, progressiveness, strew, strewn, the Wrecks, wrecks
«Nine times out of ten it is over the Bridge of Sighs that we pass the narrow gulf from youth to manhood. That interval is usually marked by an ill placed or disappointed affection. We recover and we find ourselves a new being. The intellect has become hardened by the fire through which it has passed. The mind profits by the wrecks of every passion, and we may measure our road to wisdom by the sorrows we have undergone.»
Author: Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
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«An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site.»
Author: Frank Lloyd Wright
(Architect, Writer)
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architect, bar, board, drafted, drafting, drafting board, drafts, eraser, erasers, site, sites, The Draft, the Wrecks, tools, wrecking, wrecking bar
«I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours.»
«So, dear friend, put fear out of your heart. This nation will survive, this state will prosper, the orderly business of life will go forward if only men can speak in whatever way given them to utter what their hearts hold -- by voice, by posted card, by letter or by press. Reason never has failed men. Only force and repression have made the wrecks in the world.»
Author: William Allen White
(Journalist)
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business letter, card, go forward, hold dear, orderly, posted, prosper, put forward, repression, the Wrecks, utter, wrecks
«Reason has never failed men. Only force and repression have made the wrecks in the world.»
«The man who lets a leader prescribe his course is a wreck being towed to the scrap heap.»
Author: Ayn Rand
(Novelist, Writer)
| About:
Leadership
| Keywords:
heap, lets, prescribe, prescribes, scrap, scraps, the Wrecks, tow, towed, wreck, wrecking
«The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life -and one is as good as the other.»
Author: Ernest Hemingway
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And One, as good as, damn, lucky, overhear, overheard, overhears, parts, the Wrecks, wreck, wrecking, writer
«Civilization... wrecks the planet from seafloor to stratosphere.»
Author: Richard Bach
(Writer)
| About:
Civilization,
World
| Keywords:
planet, the Wrecks, wrecking, wrecks
«My wife and I tried to breakfast together, but we had to stop or our marriage would have been wrecked»
Author: Winston Churchill
(Author, Orator, Prime Minister)
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breakfast, I Tried, My Wife, the Wrecks, wrecked, wrecking
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