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«They cannot make it say what they want it to say. And this is the beginning and the end of the case for retaining the old language: If the churches give it up, who will remember how to say what is said?»
Author: Clifford Longley | About: Church, Language | Keywords: retaining
«The basis on which good repute in any highly organized industrial community ultimately rests is pecuniary strength; and the means of showing pecuniary strength, and so of gaining or retaining a good name, are leisure and a conspicuous consumption of goods»
Author: Thorstein Veblen (Economist) | Keywords: conspicuous, conspicuous consumption, consumption, gaining, pecuniary, repute, reputed, retaining
«Mr. Wickham is blessed with such happy manners as may ensure his MAKING friends--whether he may be equally capable of RETAINING them, is less certain.»
Author: Jane Austen (Novelist, Writer) | Keywords: blessed, blessed with, ensure, ensures, ensuring, equally, manners, retaining
«The lover of nature is he whose inward and outward senses are still truly adjusted to each other; who has retained the spirit of infancy even into the era of manhood.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson (Essayist, Lecturer, Poet) | Keywords: adjusted, adjusting, adjusts, each other, era, eras, infancy, inward, lover, outward, retained, retaining, senses, spirit, The Lover, The Spirit, to each other, truly
«The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government»
Author: Thomas Jefferson (Author, President) | Keywords: arms, last resort, protect, resort, resorted, resorting, resort to, retain, retaining, Right to bear arms, strongest, The Last Resort, tyranny
«No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good one's sentiments may be, if one has not taken advantage of every concrete opportunity to act, one's character may retain entirely unaffected for the better.»
Author: William James (Philosopher, Psychologist) | Keywords: advantage, concrete, entirely, maxims, reservoir, reservoirs, retain, retaining, sentiments, unaffected
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