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«Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.»
Author: Barbara Ehrenreich
| Keywords:
favors, Human history, murderous, natural history, natural selection, operated, selection, selections
«For a long time, I operated under the Chinese proverb that there are four kinds of leaders: those who you laugh at, those who you hate, those who you love and those who you don't even know that they're leaders.»
Author: Bill Bradley
(Basketball Player, Senator)
| Keywords:
Chinese, Chinese proverb, operated, proverb
«Carrie: I'm not going to replace a man with some battery-operated device.Miranda: You haven't met 'The Rabbit.'Samantha: Oh come on, if you're going to get a vibrator, at least get one called 'The Horse.'»
«Government [is] operated by deeply embedded, hopelessly entangled bureaus where nothing is accomplished because the function of the bureau is to intercept every living idea and smother it.»
Author: Gerry Spence
| About:
Government
| Keywords:
bureau, bureaus, embed, embedded, embedding, entangle, entangled, entangling, hopelessly, intercept, intercepting, intercepts, operated, smother, smothered, smothering, smothers
«Whenever you're sitting across from some important person, always picture him sitting there in a suit of long red underwear. That's the way I always operated in business.»
Author: Joseph P. Kennedy
(Ambassador, Businessman, Diplomat, Executive)
| About:
Business
| Keywords:
important person, operated, suit, underwear
«[He was] a lawyer who usually operated with the delicacy of a Lexington Avenue express train.»
Author: Joyce Wadler
| About:
Law and lawyers
| Keywords:
avenue, avenues, delicacies, delicacy, express train, Lexington, operated
«Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.»
Author: Honore de Balzac
(Novelist)
| About:
Bureaucracy
| Keywords:
bureaucracy, giant, operated, pygmies, Pygmy
«PIANO, n. A parlor utensil for subduing the impenitent visitor. It is operated by pressing the keys of the machine and the spirits of the audience.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
impenitent, keys, operated, parlor, parlors, piano, pressing, subduing, The Machine, utensil, utensils, visitor
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