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«The reputation of a man is like his shadow, gigantic when it precedes him, and pygmy in its proportions when it follows»
Author: Charles M. de Talleyrand
| About:
Reputation
| Keywords:
gigantic, precedes, proportions, pygmies, Pygmy
«The grim fact is that we prepare for war like precocious giants, and for peace like retarded pygmies.»
Author: Lester B. Pearson
(Prime Minister, Statesman)
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War
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giants, grim, precocious, prepare for, pygmies, Pygmy, retard, retarded, retarding
«Cat: a pygmy lion who loves mice, hates dogs, and patronizes human beings»
Author: Oliver Herford
(Writer)
| About:
Animals
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hates, lion, mice, patronize, patronized, patronizes, patronizing, pygmies, Pygmy
«Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.»
Author: Honore de Balzac
(Novelist)
| About:
Bureaucracy
| Keywords:
bureaucracy, giant, operated, pygmies, Pygmy
«Subtract from the great man all that he owes to opportunity, all that he owes to chance, and all that he gained by the wisdom of his friends and the folly of his enemies, and the giant will often be seen to be a pygmy»
Author: Charles Caleb Colton
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pygmies, Pygmy, subtract, subtracted, subtracting, subtracts, The Giant
«Why, ever since Adam, who has got to the meaning of this great allegory / the world? Then we pygmies must be content to have out paper allegories but ill comprehended.»
Author: Herman Melville
(Novelist, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
Allegories, allegory, comprehended, pygmies, Pygmy
«And thus Bureaucracy, the giant power wielded by pygmies, came into the world»
Author: Honore de Balzac
(Novelist)
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Bureaucracy
| Keywords:
bureaucracy, pygmies, Pygmy, The Giant, wield, wielded, wields
«When the war of the giants is over the wars of the pygmies will begin.»
Author: Winston Churchill
(Author, Orator, Prime Minister)
| About:
War
| Keywords:
giants, pygmies, Pygmy, The War, The War of the, wars
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