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«Race relations can be an appropriate issue . . . but only if you want to craft solutions, and not catalogue complaints. If we use the issue appropriately, we can transform it from the cancer of our society into the cure.»
Author: David N. Dinkins
(Mayor, Politician)
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appropriate, appropriately, Cancer, catalogue, catalogued, catalogues, craft, solutions, The Cure, transform
«The 'teenager' seems to have replaced the Communist as the appropriate target for public controversy and foreboding.»
Author: Edgar Z. Friedenberg
(Critic, Educator, Sociologist)
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appropriate, communist, controversy, forebodes, foreboding, replaced, target, teenager
«So many tangles in life are ultimately hopeless that we have no appropriate sword other than laughter.»
Author: Gordon W. Allport
| Keywords:
appropriate, appropriated, appropriates, appropriating, hopeless, other than, tangle, tangles, tangle with, ultimately
«Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an ''ethic.''»
«In the future, instead of striving to be right at a high cost, it will be more appropriate to be flexible and plural at a lower cost. If you cannot accurately predict the future then you must flexibly be prepared to deal with various possible futures.»
Author: Edward de Bono
(Psychologist, Writer)
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accurately, appropriate, appropriated, appropriates, appropriating, cost, deal, flexible, flexibly, futures, high and low, low-cost, lower, lowered, lowering, lowers, plural, predict, predicting, Predicts, prepared, striving, various
«Our intellect is not the most subtle, the most powerful, the most appropriate, instrument for revealing the truth. It is life that, little by little, example by example, permits us to see that what is most important to our heart, or to our mind, is learned not by reasoning but through other agencies. Then it is that the intellect, observing their superiority, abdicates its control to them upon reasoned grounds and agrees to become their collaborator and lackey.»
Author: Marcel Proust
(Author, Novelist)
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abdicate, abdicated, abdicates, agencies, appropriate, collaborator, collaborators, grounds, lackey, lackeys, observing, permits, reasoned, reasoning, revealing, subtle, superiority
«PANDEMONIUM, n. Literally, the Place of All the Demons. Most of them have escaped into politics and finance, and the place is now used as a lecture hall by the Audible Reformer. When disturbed by his voice the ancient echoes clamor appropriate responses most gratifying to his pride of distinction.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
appropriate, audible, clamor, clamoring, demons, disturbed, echoes, escaped, finance, financed, finances, financing, gratifying, hall, lecture, literally, pandemonium, reformer, responses
«Lady: I've been waiting for two days and so far, no one's gotten in yet [the doctor's office].Samantha: I was once told I wouldnt' be able to get backstage to see Mick Jagger. Well I did get backstage...and I blew him. [Silence] Excuse me... I don't know if this is an appropriate question to ask...Lady: I think we passed appropriate a few seconds ago. Samantha: What kind of cancer do you have?Lady: Breast. Samantha: Breast! Me too. I'm curious...Do you have children?Lady: I'm a nun. Samantha: You have none. Lady: No, no, no...I AM a nun. But that doesn't mean that I didn't enjoy your Mick Jagger story. Samantha: I thought that nuns had to wear...Lady: Oh, I haven't worn a habbit in years. Samantha: So then...you don't have sex? Lady: No. Samantha: Never had sex?Lady: No. Samantha: Ohh. [thoughtful silence] Just one more. Lady: Go right ahead. Samantha: Are you allowed to masturbate?Lady: [thinking] I never asked. But thanks for getting my mind off cancer for the first time in a week. Samantha: Happy to help.»
Author: Sex and the City
(TV series)
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appropriate, backstage, blew, Cancer, for the first time, gotten, have sex, Jagger, Just One, masturbate, Mick, Mick Jagger, nun, Nuns, pass off, seconds, Second Thoughts, The Doctor, thoughtful, wear off, worn