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«The living generation is bound to support them, as it would an aged and slightly zany parent.»
Author: August Heckscher | About: Generations | Keywords: aged, slightly, zany
«The most dangerous of all falsehoods is a slightly distorted truth»
«Try to cook so that it will surprise a little, agreeably and astonish slightly, without shocking.»
«The capacity to blunder slightly is the real marvel of DNA. Without this special attribute, we would still be anaerobic bacteria and there would be no music.»
«The least degree of heat, as long as it is slightly higher than boiling water, suffices for uniting oxygen and hydrogen and carbon and for forming oil and water.»
«While the form of treachery varies slightly from case to case, liberals always manage to take the position that most undermines American security.»
«Why am I so determined to put the shoulder where it belongs? Women have very round shoulders that push forward slightly; this touches me and I say: 'One must not hide that!' Then someone tells you: 'The shoulder is on the back'. I have never seen women with shoulders on their backs.»
«The gray, immense and unmistakably Central European sky.. air slightly perfumed with petrol and boiled potatoes.»
«The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much»
«When I was praised I lost my time, for instantly I turned around to look at the work I had thought slightly of, and that day I made nothing new.»

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