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«We have ignored cultural literacy in thinking about education We ignore the air we breathe until it is thin or foul. Cultural literacy is the oxygen of social intercourse.»
Author: E. D. Hirsch, Jr.
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About:
Ignorance
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Keywords:
breathe,
cultural,
foul,
ignored,
intercourse,
literacy,
oxygen,
social intercourse,
thin,
thin air
«The ring so worn, as you behold, / So thin, so pale, is yet of gold.»
«Sexiness wears thin after a while and beauty fades, but to be married to a man who makes you laugh every day, ah, now that's a real treat.»
Author: Joanne Woodward
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About:
Sex
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Keywords:
every day,
fades,
fade out,
married,
married man,
sexiness,
thin,
thinned,
thinner,
thinnest,
thinning,
thins,
to a man,
treat,
wears
«To ask women to become unnaturally thin is to ask them to relinquish their sexuality.»
«Set the foot down with distrust on the crust of the world -- it is thin.»
«There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.»
Author: Erma Bombeck
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Keywords:
comedies,
comedy,
humor,
humored,
humors,
laughter,
line,
separates,
thin,
thinned,
thinner,
thinnest,
thinning,
thins,
tragedy
«Time is but the stream I go fishing in. I drink at it, but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. It's thin current slides away, but eternity remains.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
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Essayist,
Philosopher,
Poet)
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About:
Time
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Keywords:
bottom,
bottom fish,
current,
detect,
detecting,
detects,
drink,
eternity,
fishing,
I go,
remains,
sandy,
shallow,
shallower,
shallowest,
shallows,
slid,
slides,
sliding,
stream,
streaming,
thin,
thinned,
thinner,
thinnest,
thinning,
thins
«Vice President Cheney is also on vacation. He's in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. What better place for a guy who has had 4 heart attacks than a place with thin air, rugged hiking and all-beef dinners? Why don't they get some snow for him to shovel while he's out there, too?»
Author: Jay Leno
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Comedian,
Host)
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Keywords:
air hole,
beef,
beefing,
beeves,
Cheney,
dinners,
heart attack,
heart attacks,
hike,
hiked,
hiking,
Jackson,
Jackson Hole,
rugged,
shovel,
shoveling,
thin,
thin air,
vacation,
vice president,
Wyoming
«The partitions of the houses were so thin we could hear the women occupants of adjoining rooms changing their minds.»
Author: Mark Twain
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Humorist,
Lecturer,
Writer)
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Keywords:
adjoin,
adjoining,
changing,
houses,
occupant,
occupants,
partition,
partitions,
rooming house,
rooms,
The Women,
thin
«Switzerland is simply a large, lumpy, solid rock with a thin skin of grass stretched over it.»