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«No sane local official who has hung up an empty stocking over the municipal fireplace, is going to shoot Santa Claus just before a hard Christmas.»
Author: Alfred E. Smith
(Governor)
| Keywords:
Claus, Clauses, fireplace, fireplaces, hung, local, municipal, official, sane, Santa, Santa Claus, stocking, stockings
«Reservations and cloth napkins are really minor pinnacles in the high sierra of the New York lunch. The zenith, the Mount Whitney of lunches, the noon meal at which all local lines of force converge [is] the Bar Room of the Four Seasons.»
Author: Raymond Sokolov
| About:
America and Americans,
Food
| Keywords:
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«So I rang up a local building firm, I said 'I want a skip outside my house.' He said 'I'm not stopping you.'»
«Surely there must be some way to find a husband or, for that matter, merely an escort, without sacrificing one's privacy, self-respect, and interior decorating scheme. For example, men could be imported from the developing countries, many parts of which are suffering from a man excess, at least in relation to local food supply.»
Author: Barbara Ehrenreich
| Keywords:
decorate, decorated, decorating, developing, developing countries, escort, escorted, escorting, escorts, food supply, for example, for that matter, import, imported, imports, Interior, in relation to, local, of import, relation to, scheme, supply
«I have passed all my days in London, until I have formed as many and intense local attachments as any of you mountaineers can have done with dead nature.»
«Police in Washington D.C. are now using cameras to catch drivers who go through red lights. Many congressmen this week opposed the use of the red light cameras incorrectly assuming they were being used for surveillance at local brothels.»
Author: Dennis Miller
(Actor, Comedian)
| Keywords:
assuming, brothel, Brothels, cameras, congressmen, drivers, incorrectly, local, red light, surveillance, This Week
«Parliament is not a congress of ambassadors from different and hostile interests; which interests each must maintain, as an agent and advocate, against other agents and advocates; but parliament is a deliberative assembly of one nation, with one interest, that of the whole; where, not local purposes, not local prejudices ought to guide, but the general good, resulting from the general reason of the whole. You choose a member indeed; but when you have chosen him, he is not a member of Bristol, but he is a member of parliament.»
Author: Edmund Burke
(Philosopher, Statesman)
| Keywords:
advocate, advocates, agent, agents, ambassadors, assembly, Bristol, congress, Congress of, deliberative, general assembly, general interest, hostile, local, member, Member of Parliament, One Nation, parliament, parliaments, prejudices, purposes, resulting, The Ambassadors, The General
«Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls. Contrary to what you've just seen, war is neither glamorous nor fun. There are no winners, only losers. There are no good wars, with the following exceptions: The American Revolution, World War II, and the Star Wars Trilogy. If you'd like to learn more about war, there's lots of books in your local library, many of them with cool, gory pictures.»
Author: Nancy Cartwright
(Actress)
| Keywords:
American Girl, American Revolution, Boys and Girls, exceptions, gentlemen, glamorous, gory, ladies, Ladies and, local, Losers, picture book, The American Revolution, The Star, trilogy, winners, world war, World War II
«Our citizenship in the United States is our national character. Our citizenship in any particular state is only our local distinction. By the latter we are known at home, by the former to the world. Our great title is AMERICANS -- our inferior one varies with the place.»
Author: Thomas Paine
(Writer)
| Keywords:
American state, citizenship, distinction, former, inferior, in the United States, latter, local, national, title, varies
«It was the luckiest thing that ever happened to me. Betty is to blame for it all. Whatever I am or have accomplished, I owe to Betty. I ain't got no sense. My wife made me what I am. In other words -- local girl makes good in the city -- makes good man.»
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