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«The sports page records people's accomplishments, the front page usually records nothing, but man's failures.»
«We cannot tear out a single page of our life, but we can throw the whole book in the fire»
«That the desires of the majority of the people are often for injustice and inhumanity against the minority, is demonstrated by every page of the history of the whole world»
Author: John Adams
(
President)
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About:
Majority,
Minority
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Keywords:
demonstrated,
demonstrates,
demonstrating,
desires,
History of,
History of the,
inhumanity,
injustice,
injustices,
majority,
minority,
page,
The History,
The History of
«Verse is not written, it is bled; Out of the poet's abstract head. Words drip the poem on the page; Out of his grief, delight and rage.»
Author: Paul Engle
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About:
Poets,
Words
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Keywords:
abstract,
abstracted,
abstracting,
bled,
delight,
drip,
dripped,
grief,
page,
poem,
poet,
rage,
raged,
rages,
Rage for,
verse,
written,
written word
«The Bible tells us to be like God, and then on page after page it describes God as a mass murderer. This may be the single most important key to the political behavior of Western Civilization.»
«The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.»
«The prolonged slavery of women is the darkest page in human history»
«The secret of popular writing is never to put more on a given page than the common reader can lap off it with no strain whatsoever on his habitually slack attention»
Author: Ezra Pound
(
Critic,
Editor,
Poet,
Translator)
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About:
Writing
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Keywords:
habitually,
lap,
page,
popular,
reader,
slack,
slacked,
slacking,
strain,
whatsoever,
write off
«There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry.»
«To get the right word in the right place is a rare achievement. To condense the diffused light of a page of thought into the luminous flash of a single sentence, is worthy to rank as a prize composition just by itself...Anybody can have ideas--the difficulty is to express them without squandering a quire of paper on an idea that ought to be reduced to one glittering paragraph.»
Author: Mark Twain
(
Humorist,
Lecturer,
Writer)
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Keywords:
achievement,
composition,
compositions,
condense,
condensed,
difficulty,
diffuse,
diffused,
diffuses,
diffusing,
express,
flash,
flashed,
flashing,
glittered,
glittering,
ideas,
in a flash,
luminous,
ought,
page,
paper,
paragraph,
paragraphing,
paragraphs,
prize,
prizing,
rank,
ranked,
rankest,
ranking,
rare,
reduced,
sentence,
sentenced,
sentencing,
squandered,
squandering,
squanders,
worthy