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«The average man will bristle if you say his father was dishonest, but he will brag a little if he discovers that his great-grandfather was a pirate.»
Author: Bern Williams
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«There is a quality even meaner than outright ugliness or disorder, and this meaner quality is the dishonest mask of pretended order, achieved by ignoring or suppressing the real order that is struggling to exist and to be served.»
Author: Jane Jacobs
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dishonest, disorder, ignoring, mask, meaner, outright, pretended, served, struggling, suppressing, ugliness
«There are men so incorrigibly lazy that no inducement that you can offer will tempt them to work; so eaten up by vice that virtue is abhorrent to them, and so inveterately dishonest that theft is to them a master passion. When a human being has reached that stage, there is only one course that can be rationally pursued. Sorrowfully, but remorselessly, it must be recognized that he has become lunatic, morally demented, incapable of self-government, and that upon him, therefore, must be passed the sentence of permanent seclusion from a world in which he is not fit to be at large.»
Author: William Booth
(Spiritual leader)
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«Scorn also to depress thy competitor by any dishonest or unworthy method; strive to raise thyself above him only by excelling him; so shall thy contest for superiority be crowned with honour, if not with success.»
Author: Akhenaton
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competitor, contest, crowned, depress, dishonest, excelling, honour, scorn, superiority, unworthy, with success
«Nixon was the most dishonest individual I have ever met in my life. He lied to his wife, his family, his friends, his colleagues in the Congress, lifetime members of his own political party, the American people and the world.»
Author: Barry Goldwater
(Politician, Senator)
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American people, colleague, colleagues, dishonest, lied, Nixon, political party, The Congress
«Political advertising ought to be stopped. It's the only really dishonest kind of advertising that's left. It's totally dishonest.»
Author: David Ogilvy
| About:
Advertising,
Politics
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advertising, dishonest, political, stopped, totally
«The best apology against false accusers is silence and sufferance, and honest deeds set against dishonest words»
Author: John Milton
(Historian, Poet, Scholar)
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accuser, accusers, apologies, apology, dishonest, sufferance
«Most critical writing is drivel and half of it is dishonest. It is a short cut to oblivion, anyway. Thinking in terms of ideas destroys the power to think in terms of emotions and sensations.»
Author: Raymond Chandler
(Writer)
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Critical thinking, cut to, dishonest, drivel, driveling, oblivion, sensations
«There are many definite methods, honest and dishonest, which make people rich; the only ''instinct'' I know of which does it is that instinct which theological Christianity crudely describes as ''the sin of avarice.''»
«Nowadays it is about as big a crime to be dumb as it is to be dishonest.»
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