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trims
«Politicians trim and tack in their quest for power, but they do so in order to get the wind of votes in their sails.»
Author: Ian Gilmour
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Politicians
| Keywords:
quest, quest for, tack, tacked, tacks, trim, trimmed, trimmer, trimmest, trimming, trims, votes, wind power
«Can't you see you go public and all these people owning you want is dividends and running their stock up, you don't give them that and they sell you out, you do and some bunch of vice presidents some place you never heard of like the ones that turned this out, this wood product they call it, they spot you and launch an offer and all of a sudden you're working for them trimming and cutting and finally bringing in people to turn something out they don't care what the hell it is, there's no pride in their work because what you've got them turning out nobody could be proud of in the first place.»
Author: William Gaddis
| Keywords:
bunch, cutting, dividend, dividends, in the first place, launch, of a sudden, owning, Presidents, Public place, public works, stock, trimmed, trimming, trimmings, trims
«The hands of every clock are shears, trimming us away scrap by scrap, and every time piece with a digital readout blinks us towards implosion.»
«A disquieting era of genetic manipulation is coming, one that may revolutionize human capacities, and notions of health. If we treat moral scruples impatiently, as inherently retrograde in a scientifically advancing civilization, we will not be in moral trim when, soon, our very humanity depends on our being in trim.»
Author: George F. Will
| Keywords:
advancing, capacities, disquiet, disquieted, disquieting, disquiets, era, genetic, human health, impatiently, manipulation, manipulations, notions, retrograde, retrograding, revolutionize, revolutionized, revolutionizing, scientifically, scruple, scruples, trim, trimmed, trimmer, trimmest, trimming, trims
«There seems no reason why patriotism and narrowness should go together, or why intellectual fairmindedness should be confounded with political trimming, or why serviceable truth should keep cloistered because not partisan»
Author: Herman Melville
(Novelist, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
cloister, cloistered, confounded, confounding, confounds, fair-mindedness, fairmindedness, go together, narrowness, partisan, partisans, patriotism, serviceable, trimmed, trimming, trimmings, trims
«To keep the body in good health is a duty, for otherwise we shall not be able to trim the lamp of wisdom, and keep our mind strong and clear. Water surrounds the lotus flower, but does not wet its petals.»
«We have lost the power even of imagining what the ancient idealization of poverty could have meant: the liberation of material attachments, the unbridled soul, the manlier indifference, the paying our way by what we are or do and not by what we have, the right to fling away our life at any moment irresponsibly -- the more athletic trim, in short, the moral fighting shape.»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| Keywords:
athletic, attachments, fling, idealization, idealizations, imagining, in short, irresponsibly, liberation, manlier, trim, trimmer, trimmest, trimming, trims, unbridled
«Manhood is melted into courtesies, valor into compliment, and men are only turned into tongue, and trim ones, too.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
compliment, courtesies, melted, trim, trimmed, trimmer, trimmest, trimming, trims, valor
