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Letter "O" » omitting
«Ignorance is the first requisite of the historian -- ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the highest art.»
Author: Lytton Strachey
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Keywords:
clarified,
clarifies,
clarifying,
historian,
omit,
omits,
omitting,
placid,
requisite,
selects,
simplifies
«Those expressions are omitted which can not with propriety be read aloud in the family.»
«Quibbling is the creation of a false impression in the mind of the listener by cleverly wording what is said, omitting relevant facts or telling a partial truth when one does so with the intent to deceive or mislead.»
Author: Will Ketterson
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Keywords:
cleverly,
mislead,
omit,
omitting,
partial,
quibble,
quibbles,
quibbling,
The Listener,
wording,
wordings
«There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.»
Author: William Shakespeare
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Dramatist,
Playwright,
Poet)
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Keywords:
affairs,
afloat,
bound,
clouds,
current,
flood,
flood tide,
folded,
folding,
fold up,
man of affairs,
miseries,
omit,
omits,
omitted,
omitting,
shallows,
The Clouds,
The Current,
The Flood,
tide,
voyage
«Things omitted are often more deadly than errors committed.»
«I hope that posterity will judge me kindly, not only as to the things which I have explained, but also to those which I have intentionally omitted so as to leave to others the pleasure of discovery.»
Author: Rene Descartes
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Mathematician,
Philosopher,
Scientist)
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About:
Posterity
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Keywords:
explained,
intentionally,
kindly,
omit,
omits,
omitted,
omitting,
Others The,
posterity,
so as to,
The Pleasure
«The Imperial German Government will not expect the Government of the United States to omit any word or any act necessary to the performance of its sacred duty of maintaining the rights of the United States and its citizens and of safeguarding their free exercise and enjoyment.»
Author: William Jennings Bryan
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Orator,
Politician)
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Keywords:
German,
government of the United,
government of the United States,
imperial,
Maintaining,
omit,
omits,
omitting,
Safeguarding,
The Imperial
«If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water.»
«There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in miseries.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(
Dramatist,
Playwright,
Poet)
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Keywords:
affairs,
bound,
flood,
flood tide,
miseries,
omit,
omits,
omitted,
omitting,
shallows,
The Flood,
tide,
voyage