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«Who originated that most exquisite of inquisitions, the condolence system?»
Author: Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
| Keywords:
condolence, exquisite, inquisitions, originated, the Inquisition
«A great proportion of the wretchedness which has embittered married life, has originated in a negligence of trifles»
Author: Thomas Sprat
| Keywords:
embitter, embittered, embitters, negligence, originated, trifles, wretchedness
«The ultimate aim of psychoanalysis is to attribute art to mental weakness, and then to trace the weakness back to the point where, according to analytic dogma, it originated -- namely, the lavatory.»
Author: Karl Kraus
(Critic, Journalist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
analytic, attribute, dogma, lavatories, lavatory, namely, originated, psychoanalysis, to the point, trace
«IMMORAL, adj. Inexpedient. Whatever in the long run and with regard to the greater number of instances men find to be generally inexpedient comes to be considered wrong, wicked, immoral. If man's notions of right and wrong have any other basis than this of expediency; if they originated, or could have originated, in any other way; if actions have in themselves a moral character apart from, and nowise dependent on, their consequences --then all philosophy is a lie and reason a disorder of the mind.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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adj, dependent, dependent on, disorder, expediency, immoral, inexpedient, instances, in the long run, moral character, moral philosophy, notions, nowise, originated, regard to, right and wrong, with regard to
«Too often the great decisions are originated and given form in bodies made up wholly of men, or so completely dominated by them that whatever of special value women have to offer is shunted aside without expression.»
Author: Eleanor Roosevelt
(Diplomat, First Lady, Humanitarian)
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Decision
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dominated by, originated, or so, without expression
«He was a wise man who originated the idea of God.»
«Alexander Hamilton originated the put and take system in our national treasury: the taxpayers put it in, and the politicians take it out»
Author: Will Rogers
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Politicians
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Alexander, Alexander Hamilton, Hamilton, originated, taxpayer, taxpayers, Treasuries, treasury
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