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Letter "L" » locked
«Consider what kind of nation we would be if hundreds of scandals involving state and local government still lay locked in the mouths of citizens.»
«If you were to come to Minnesota, I could have you locked up like that. That's power.»
«Like medieval peasants, computer manufacturers and millions of users are locked in a seemingly eternal lease with their evil landlord, who comes around every two years to collect billions of dollars of taxes in return for mediocre services»
Author: Mark Harris
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About:
Computers
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Keywords:
billions,
collect,
in return,
landlord,
Landlords,
lease,
leased,
leases,
leasing,
locked,
manufacturers,
medieval,
mediocre,
peasants,
seemingly,
services,
tax return,
The Landlord
«[On the game ] We shouldn?t have gotten beat by twenty something points this game. We didn?t play well, we weren?t sharp, we just didn?t play the way we were supposed to play this game. They played tough, they tried to send me baseline, they locked me up down under the glass and I just took too much time to make the plays. I wasn?t smart enough to attack them.»
«Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books written in a foreign language. Do not now look for the answers. They cannot now be given to you because you could not live them. It is a question of experiencing everything. At present you need to live the question. Perhaps you will gradually, without even noticing it, find yourself experiencing the answer, some distant day. Letters to a Young Poet»
Author: Rainer Maria Rilke
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Keywords:
answer,
answers,
at present,
be given,
books,
Books not,
distant,
experiencing,
foreign,
foreign language,
foreign languages,
given,
give notice,
gradually,
language,
letters,
locked,
locking,
lock in,
lock up,
look for,
noticing,
Not now,
patience,
perhaps,
poet,
question,
questions,
remains,
rooms,
The Question,
unsolved,
written,
written language
«I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in.»
«Homosexuality in Russia is a crime and the punishment is seven years in prison, locked up with the other men. There is a three year waiting list.»
«If I didn't have my films as an outlet for all the different sides of me, I would probably be locked up.»
«. . . when the locked door opens, and there comes in a young woman, deadly pale, and with long fair hair, who glides to the fire, and sits down in the chair we have left there, wringing her hands.»
«Formerly, his heart had been as a locked casket with its treasure inside; but now the casket was empty, and the lock was broken. Left groping in darkness, with his prop utterly gone, Silas had inevitably a sense, though a dull and half-despairing one, that if any help came to him it must come from without; and there was a slight stirring of expectation at the sight of his fellow-men, a faint consciousness of dependence on their goodwill.»
Author: George Eliot
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Novelist)
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Keywords:
casket,
caskets,
dependence,
despairing,
expectation,
faint,
formerly,
groped,
grope for,
groping,
inevitably,
in darkness,
lock,
locked,
prop,
propped,
propping,
props,
prop up,
Silas,
slight,
stirring