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«Romance is dead - it was acquired in a hostile takeover by Hallmark and Disney, homogenized, and sold off piece by piece.»
Author: Lisa Simpson
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acquired, Disney, hallmark, homogenized, homogenizing, hostile, hostile takeover, piece, Piece By Piece, romance, sell off, sold, takeover, takeovers
«Remember the waterfront shack with the sign FRESH FISH SOLD HERE. Of course it's fresh, we're on the ocean. Of course it's for sale, we're not giving it away. Of course it's here, otherwise the sign would be someplace else. The final sign: FISH.»
Author: Peggy Noonan
(Author, Journalist, Political analyst)
| Keywords:
for sale, fresh fish, sale, shack, sold, someplace, waterfront
«The reading public is intellectually adolescent at best, and it is obvious that what is called ''significant literature'' will only be sold to this public by exactly the same methods as are used to sell it toothpaste, cathartics and automobiles.»
Author: Raymond Chandler
(Writer)
| Keywords:
adolescent, adolescents, at best, automobiles, cathartic, cathartics, intellectually, sold, toothpaste
«Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Israel, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they sold the righteous for silver, and the poor for a pair of shoes; / That pant after the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and turn aside the way of the meek: and a man and his father will go in unto the same maid, to profane my holy name: / And they lay themselves down upon clothes laid to pledge by every altar, and they drink the wine of the condemned in the house of their god.»
Author: Bible
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altar, condemned, go in, His father, Holy Father, Holy Name, House of, In the House, maid, meek, meekest, pair, pant, pledge, profane, sold, thereof, transgressions, turn away
«The rich man is always sold to the institution which makes him rich. Absolutely speaking, the more money, the less virtue.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
absolutely, institution, less, rich, rich man, sell out, sold, speaking, such institutions, The Less, virtue
«Talk about slavery! It is not the peculiar institution of the South. It exists wherever men are bought and sold, wherever a man allows himself to be made a mere thing or a tool, and surrenders his inalienable rights of reason and conscience. Indeed, this slavery is more complete than that which enslaves the body alone... I never yet met with, or heard of, a judge who was not a slave of this kind, and so the finest and most unfailing weapon of injustice. He fetches a slightly higher price than the black men only because he is a more valuable slave.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
allows, bought, buying and selling, enslaves, fetching, finest, high-priced, inalienable, Inalienable rights, injustice, institution, peculiar, slave, slavery, slightly, sold, South, surrenders, talk about, The Black, The Finest, the South, tool, To South, to the south, unfailing, weapon, wherever
«Newspaper people have a habit of putting you in the front pages to sell their papers, and then after they've sold their papers and got big circulation's, they say, 'Look at what we've done for you.'»
Author: John Lennon
(Political activist, Singer, Songwriter)
| About:
Information
| Keywords:
circulation, done for, newspaper, pages, papers, sold, The Front, The Front Page
«When we can drain the Ocean into mill-ponds, and bottle up the Force of Gravity, to be sold by retail, in gas jars; then may we hope to comprehend the infinitudes of man's soul under formulas of Profit and Loss; and rule over this too, as over a patent engine, by checks, and valves, and balances.»
Author: Thomas Carlyle
(Essayist, Historian)
| Keywords:
balances, bottle, bottle up, checks, comprehend, drain, engine, formulas, gravity, infinitude, infinitudes, jars, mill, Mills, patent, patented, ponds, profit and loss, retail, retailing, sold, valve
