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«I wouldn't live in California. All that sun makes you sterile.»
«He has the lucidity which is the by-product of a fundamentally sterile mind. He does not have to struggle... with the crowded pulsations of a fecund imagination. On the contrary he is almost devoid of imagination.»
Author: Aneurin Bevan
(Politician)
| Keywords:
by-product, crowded, devoid, devoid of, fecund, fundamentally, lucidity, on the contrary, pulsations, sterile
«No office anywhere on earth is so puritanical, impeccable, elegant, sterile or incorruptible as not to contain the yeast for at least one affair, probably more. You can say it couldn't happen here, but just let a yeast raiser into the place and first thing you know - bread!»
Author: Helen Gurley Brown
(Editor, Writer)
| Keywords:
contain, elegant, impeccable, incorruptible, puritanical, raiser, sterile, yeast
«Concepts of justice must have hands and feet or they remain sterile abstractions. The hands and feet we need are efficient means and methods to carry out justice in every case in the shortest possible time and at the lowest possible cost.»
Author: Warren E. Burger
| About:
Justice
| Keywords:
abstractions, carry out, concepts, efficient, hand and foot, lowest, methods, shortest, sterile
«No people require maxims so much as the American. The reason is obvious: the country is so vast, the people always going somewhere, from Oregon apple valley to boreal New England, that we do not know whether to be temperate orchards or sterile climate.»
Author: Edward Dahlberg
(Novelist)
| Keywords:
apple orchard, boreal, climate, maxims, orchards, Oregon, sterile
«Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile»
«A long series of sterile weeks lay behind us, and here at last there was a fitting object for those remarkable powers which, like all special gifts, become irksome to their owner when they are not in use.»
«God knows people who are paid to have attitudes toward things, professional critics, make me sick; camp following eunuchs of literature. They won't even whore. They're all virtuous and sterile. And how well meaning and high minded. But they're all camp followers.»
Author: Ernest Hemingway
| About:
Criticism,
Literature
| Keywords:
attitudes, camp, camped, camping, camp follower, critics, eunuchs, followers, following, high-minded, minded, professional, sterile, virtuous, well-meaning, whore
«A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.»
Author: Maya Angelou
(Poet)
| Keywords:
bizarre, fraught, greeting, greetings, implication, implications, innuendo, innuendoes, loaded, niceties, nicety, pervade, pervaded, pervades, pretense, pretenses, response, sensation, sterile, withdrawal
«Nothing is more costly, nothing is more sterile, than vengeance»
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