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Letter "C" » collars
«When something does not insist on being noticed, when we aren't grabbed by the collar or struck on the skull by a presence or an event, we take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude»
Author: Cynthia Ozick
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Keywords:
an event,
collar,
collars,
event,
grabbed,
grabs,
granted,
gratitude,
insist,
noticed,
skull,
skulls,
struck,
take for,
take for granted,
The Skull
«In some circles Stalin has in fact been making a comeback. His portrait hangs above the dashboard of trucks, a symbol of blue-collar nostalgia for a tough leader.»
Author: Serge Schmemann
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Keywords:
blue-collar,
circles,
collar,
collars,
comeback,
comebacks,
dashboard,
hangs,
nostalgia,
portrait,
trucks
«One dog yelping at nothing will set ten thousand straining at their collars»
«White collar conservative flashin down the street, pointing that plastic finger at me, they all assume my kind will drop and die, but I'm gonna wave my freak flag high.»
Author: Jimi Hendrix
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Composer,
Guitarist,
Singer)
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Keywords:
collar,
collars,
drop down,
finger,
flag,
flag down,
flag waving,
freak,
freaking,
freaks,
freak out,
plastic,
pointing,
wave,
white-collar
«A man of forty today has nothing to worry him but falling hair, inability to button the top button, failing vision, shortness of breath, a tendency of the collar to shut off all breathing, trembling of the kidneys to whatever tune the orchestra is playing, and a general sense of giddiness when the matter of rent is brought up. Forty is Life's Golden Age.»
Author: Robert Benchley
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Keywords:
breathing,
button,
collar,
collars,
failing,
giddiness,
Golden Age,
inability,
kidney,
kidneys,
orchestra,
rent,
shortness,
shortness of breath,
shut off,
The Golden Age,
trembling
«The general idea, of course, in any first-class laundry is to see that no shirt or collar ever comes back twice.»
«And the weight of the golden earrings that he requested was a thousand and seven hundred shekels of gold; beside ornaments, and collars, and purple raiment that was on the kings of Midian, and beside the chains that were about their camels' necks.»
Author: Bible
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Keywords:
camels,
collars,
earring,
earrings,
golden chain,
Midian,
necks,
ornaments,
purple,
raiment,
requested,
seven hundred,
shekels
«There is no greater crime than to stand between a man and his development; to take any law or institution and put it around him like a collar, and fasten it there, so that as he grows and enlarges, he presses against it till he suffocates and dies.»
Author: Henry Ward Beecher
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Keywords:
collar,
collars,
enlarges,
fasten,
fastening,
fastens,
institution,
presses,
suffocate,
suffocated,
suffocates,
suffocating