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Letter "S" » sums
«There is no human reason why a child should not admire and emulate his teacher's ability to do sums, rather than the village bum's ability to whittle sticks and smoke cigarettes. The reason why the child does not is plain enough -- the bum has put himself on an equality with him and the teacher has not.»
Author: Floyd Dell
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Keywords:
bum,
bummed,
bums,
cigarettes,
emulate,
emulates,
emulating,
sticks,
sums,
The Teacher,
The Village,
village,
whittle,
whittled,
whittles
«It's a nervous work. The state that you need to write is the state that others are paying large sums to get rid of.»
«We all know how the size of sums of money appears to vary in a remarkable way according as they are being paid in or paid out.»
«Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody.»
«The powers in charge keep us in a perpetual state of fear keep us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.»
Author: Douglas MacArthur
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General)
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Keywords:
blindly,
demanded,
disasters,
exorbitant,
fervor,
furnishing,
furnishings,
gobble,
Gobbles,
in charge,
patriotic,
rallies,
rally,
rallying,
sums
«Men will pay large sums to whores for telling them they are not bores»
«The New Frontier I speak of is not a set of promises -- it is a set of challenges. It sums up not what I intend to offer the American people, but what I intent to ask of them.»
Author: John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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President)
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Keywords:
American,
American people,
Challenges,
frontier,
intend,
intent,
intents,
New American,
New Frontier,
offer,
promises,
sums,
The American,
The New,
The New American
«Even with vast sums of wealth, the mind is not satisfied. Gazing upon countless beauties, the man is not satisfied. He is so involved with his wife and sons - he believes that they belong to him. That wealth shall pass away, and those relatives shall be reduced to ashes.»
«I did send to you for certain sums of gold, which you denied me.»