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Letter "S" » sentenced
«Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born.»
«Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper's bell of an approaching looter.»
Author: Ayn Rand
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Novelist,
Writer)
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Keywords:
approaching,
bell,
leper,
lepers,
looter,
looters,
run for,
sentence,
sentenced,
sentencing,
tells
«We're all of us sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life!»
Author: Tennessee Williams
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Keywords:
all of,
All of Us,
confinement,
our own,
sentenced,
sentencing,
skinned,
skinning,
skins,
solitary,
solitary confinement
«I was court-martial in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.»
«It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.»
«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
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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
«Whenever the literary German dives into a sentence, that is the last you are going to see of him until he emerges on the other side of his Atlantic with his verb in his mouth.»
Author: Mark Twain
(
Humorist,
Lecturer,
Writer)
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Keywords:
Atlantic,
dives,
diving,
emerges,
emerging,
German,
literary,
mouth,
Other side,
See of,
sentence,
sentenced,
sentencing,
side,
The Last,
The other side,
verb,
verbs
«All trials are trials for one's life, just as all sentences are sentences of death.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(
Critic,
Dramatist,
Novelist,
Poet)
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Keywords:
Death sentence,
for one,
just as,
on trial,
sentenced,
sentenced to death,
sentences,
sentencing,
The Trial,
Trials
«The rule which forbids ending a sentence with a preposition is the kind of nonsense up with which I will not put.»
Author: Winston Churchill
(
Author,
Orator,
Prime Minister)
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Keywords:
ending,
endings,
Forbade,
forbidding,
forbids,
his rule,
kind,
kindest,
kind of,
nonsense,
preposition,
put,
put over,
put through,
put under,
rule,
rule by,
rule out,
sentence,
sentenced,
sentencing
«Say what you have to say and the first time you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending-sit down.»