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«The mistake a lot of politicians make is in forgetting they've been appointed and thinking they've been anointed.»
Author: Claude Pepper
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«The individual woman is required a thousand times a day to choose either to accept her appointed role and thereby rescue her good disposition out of the wreckage of her self-respect, or else follow an independent line of behavior and rescue her self-respect out of the wreckage of her good disposition.»
Author: Jeannette Rankin
(Politician)
| Keywords:
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«Ted Hughes has been appointed poet laureate to succeed Sir John Betjeman, which is a bit like appointing a grim young crow to replace a cuddly old teddy bear.»
Author: Philip Howard
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appointed, appointing, crow, cuddly, grim, Hughes, John Betjeman, laureate, Old Crow, Poet Laureate, replace, Sir John, Ted, teddy, teddy bear, Ted Hughes
«The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny»
Author: James Madison
(President)
| About:
Power
| Keywords:
accumulation, accumulations, appointed, appointing, appoints, definition, elective, executive, Executive power, hereditary, judiciary, justly, legislative, Legislative power, powers, pronounced, pronouncing, self-appointed
«Blue color is everlastingly appointed by the Deity to be a source of delight»
Author: John Ruskin
(Critic, Writer)
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appointed, appointing, appoints, blue, color, deity, delight, everlastingly
«CABBAGE, n. A familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head. The cabbage is so called from Cabagius, a prince who on ascending the throne issued a decree appointing a High Council of Empire consisting of the members of his predecessor's Ministry and the cabbages in the royal garden. When any of his Majesty's measures of state policy miscarried conspicuously it was gravely announced that several members of the High Council had been beheaded, and his murmuring subjects were appeased.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
announced, appeased, appeases, appeasing, appointing, cabbage, cabbages, conspicuously, council, council of, Empire State, gravely, His Majesty, kitchen garden, majesty, miscarry, murmuring, predecessor, The Empire State, vegetable, vegetable garden
«NEPOTISM, n. Appointing your grandmother to office for the good of the party.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
appointing, grandmother, nepotism, The Party
«Responsibility does not only lie with the leaders of our countries or with those who have been appointed or elected to do a particular job. It lies with each of us individually. Peace, for example, starts within each one of us. When we have inner peace, we can be at peace with those around us. When our community is in a state of peace, it can share that peace with neighboring communities, and so on.»
Author: Dalai Lama
| Keywords:
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«I think the mistake a lot of us make is thinking the state-appointed shrink is our friend»
Author: Jack Handy
(Writer)
| Keywords:
appointed, appointing, appoints, shrank, shrink, shrinks, shrink from, shrunk, The State
«Everything comes gradually and at its appointed hour.»
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