Now then, if we were to go the lowest road and plaster my face on the bottle of oil and vinegar dressing just to line our pockets, it would sink. But to go the low road to get to the high road- shameless exploitation for charity, for the common good- now that's an idea worth the hustle, a reciprocal trade agreement.
~ Paul Newman



Next word: shameless

A perfect democracy is therefore the most shameless thing in the world. ~ Edmund Burke

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You measure democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.~Abbie Hoffman

Next word: dissident(s)

Terrorist acts and civil disturbances on the part of dissident political groups, spontaneous urban riots and looting, labor strife, organized crime, corruption among high political officials, illegal use of power, rising rates of violent crime and juvenile delinquency, drug abuse-all are symptoms of serious underlying conflicts and contradictions in commercially organized cultures.
~ Thomas Bodley



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No art is less spontaneous than mine. What I do is the result of reflection and the study of the great masters. ~ Edgar Degas

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Reverie is when ideas float in our mind without reflection or regard of the understanding.~John Locke

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It is a good idea to be alone in a garden at dawn or dark so that all it's shy presences may haunt you and possess you in a reverie of suspended thought.
~ James Douglas



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It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him. ~ Johann von Goethe

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In my dreams I hear again the crash of guns, the rattle of musketry, the strange, mournful mutter of the battledfield.~Gen. Douglas MacArthur

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Perhaps ’t is pretty to force together
Thoughts so all unlike each other;
To mutter and mock a broken charm,
To dally with wrong that does no harm.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Christabel



Next word: mock

Reeling and Writhing, of course, to begin with," the Mock Turtle replied, "and then the different branches of Arithmetic Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, and Derision. ~ Lewis Carroll

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Disposition to derision and insult is awakened by the softness to foppery, the swell of insolence, the liveliness of levity, or the solemnity of grandeur; by the sprightly trip, the stately stalk, the formal strut, and the lofty mein; by gestures intended to catch the eye, and by looks elaborately formed as evidences of importance.~Samuel Johnson, The Rambler, No. 179.

Next word: levity

Nothing like a little judicious levity.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson



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The Plagiarism of orators is the art, or an ingenious and easy mode, which some adroitly employ to change, or disguise, all sorts of speeches or their own composition, or that of other authors, for their pleasure, or their utility; in such a manner that it becomes impossible even for the author himself to recognize his own work, his own genius, and his own style, so skillfully shall the whole be disguised.~Isaac D'Israeli

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A human being; and ingenious assembly of portable plumbing.
~ Christopher Morley, Human Being, 1932, ch. 11



Next word: portable

Coal is a portable climate. It carries the heat of the tropics to Labrador and the polar circle; and it is the means of transporting itself whithersoever it is wanted. Watt and Stephenson whispered in the ear of mankind their secret, that a half-ounce of coal will draw two tons a mile, and coal carries coal, by rail and by boat, to make Canada as warm as Calcutta, and with its comfort brings its industrial power. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Envy's a coal comes hissing hot from Hell.~Philip James Bailey

Next word: hissing

The angels are so enamoured of the language that is spoken in heaven, that they will not distort their lips with the hissing and unmusical dialects of men, but speak their own, whether there be any who understand it or not.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, Intellect, from Essays: First Series (1841)



Next word: enamoured

The Canadians, by the paucity of invitations that have been extended to me to do things there, have obviously never been that enamored with my work.~Bill Dixon, jazz trumpeter.

Next word: paucity

For my part I distrust all generalizations about women, favorable and unfavorable, masculine and feminine, ancient and modern; all alike, I should say, result from paucity of experience. ~ Bertrand Russell

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