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«It would be futile to attempt to fit women into a masculine pattern of attitudes, skills and abilities and disastrous to force them to suppress their specifically female characteristics and abilities by keeping up the pretense that there are no differences between the sexes.»
«The more disastrous the mishaps the simpler the reviewing task.»
«The college undergraduate is a lot of things - many of them as familiar, predictable and responsible as the bounce of a basketball, and others as startling (and occasionally disastrous) as the bounce of a football.»
Author: John Sloan
| Keywords:
basketball, bounce, disastrous, undergraduate, Undergraduates| Occasions:
Graduation
«One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one.»
Author: Agatha Christie
(Detective, Novelist, Playwright)
| About:
War
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disastrous, horrible, settles
«Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.»
«There is nothing so disastrous as a rational investment policy in an irrational world»
«Can advertising foist an inferior product on the consumer? Bitter experience has taught me that it cannot. On those rare occasions when I have advertised products which consumer tests have found inferior to other products in the same field, the results have been disastrous.»
«Every unnatural activity of the brain is as mischievous as any unnatural activity of the body and that pressing people to learn things they do not want to know is as unwholesome and disastrous as feeding them on sawdust.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
disastrous, feeding, mischievous, pressing, sawdust, unwholesome
«It's like gambling somehow. You go out for a night of drinking and you don't know where your going to end up the next day. It could work out good or it could be disastrous. It's like the throw of the dice.»
«If I were to think of and dwell on disastrous possibilities, I could do nothing. I throw myself headlong into my work, and come up again with my studies; if the storm within gets too loud, I take a glass too much to stun myself.»
Author: Vincent van Gogh
(Painter)
| Keywords:
disastrous, headlong, studies, stun, stunned, stunning
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