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«Alcohol was the background color in the fabric of Reggie's life.»
«I've learned that our background and circumstances may have influenced who we are, but we are responsible for who we become»
Author: James Rhinehart
| Keywords:
background, backgrounds, Background and, influenced, in the background
«A liberal education... frees a man from the prison-house of his class, race, time, place, background, family and even his nation.»
Author: Robert M. Hutchins
(Educator, Writer)
| About:
Education
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background, Background and, frees, House of, liberal, prison house, The Prison
«Incidentally, disturbance from cosmic background radiation is something we have all experienced. Tune your television to any channel it doesn't receive, and about 1 percent of the dancing static you see is accounted for by this ancient remnant of the Big Bang. The next time you complain that there is nothing on, remember that you can always watch the birth of the universe.»
Author: Bill Bryson
(Writer)
| Keywords:
accounted, ancient, background, backgrounds, Background and, background radiation, bang, banged, banging, bangs, bang out, big bang, complain, cosmic, dancing, disturbance, disturbances, experienced, incidentally, in the background, radiation, remnant, remnants, static, the Big, The Big Bang, The Channels, The Dancing, tune
«Different ideas had been talked about, that we could do the background music or even write a new song or something, but this became the perfect vehicle because we always had a thing between the four of us that if any one of us wasn't in it, we weren'»
«Do not separate text from historical background. If you do, you will have perverted and subverted the Constitution, which can only end in a distorted, bastardized form of illegitimate government.»
Author: James Madison
(President)
| About:
Constitution,
Government
| Keywords:
background, backgrounds, Background and, bastardized, constitution, distorted, historical, illegitimate, in the background, perverted, perverting, perverts, separate, subvert, subverted, subverting, subverts, text
«Every philosophy is tinged with the coloring of some secret imaginative background, which never emerges explicitly into its train of reasoning.»
Author: Alfred North Whitehead
(Mathematician, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
background, coloring, emerges, explicitly, imaginative, tinge, tinged, tingeing
«Courtney (Showing Carrie her book cover): Let me talk you through it. Blurred background, aah, fast-paced city. And you, naked with nothing but your ideas.Carrie: I get it. But, see, no matter how fast paced the city, I always manage to get my clothes on before I leave the apartment.»
Author: Sex and the City
(TV series)
| Keywords:
background, blur, blurred, blurring, blurs, Carrie, paced, talk show, Talk shows, The Apartment
«Always try to put yourself in the position of the other and judge your action against the background. Then you will not be wrong.»
«I'm inclined to think that a military background wouldn't hurt anyone.»
Author: William Faulkner
(Novelist, Writer)
| Keywords:
background, backgrounds, Background and, inclined, in the background, military
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