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• Now I've heard the phrase 'there's no such thing as an ugly baby' but that is an ugly baby!

  Shawn Michaels

  Baby, Wwe, Ugly

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• Magnetic lines of force convey a far better and purer idea than the phrase magnetic current or magnetic flood: it avoids the assumption of a current or of two currents and also of fluids or a fluid, yet conveys a full and useful pictorial idea to the mind.

  Michael Faraday

  Science, Ideas, Two

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• A human group transforms itself into a crowd when it suddenly responds to a suggestion rather than to reasoning, to an image rather than to an idea, to an affirmation rather than to proof, to the repetition of a phrase rather than to arguments, to prestige rather than to competence.

  Jean Francois Revel

  Ideas, Suggestions, Groups

  Jean François Revel (1991). “The Flight from Truth: The Reign of Deceit in the Age of Information”, Random House (NY)

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• Experimental investigation, to borrow a phrase employed by Kepler respecting the testing of hypotheses, is "a very great thief of time." Sometimes it costs many days to determine a fact that can be stated in a line.

  John William Draper

  Science, Thieves, Kepler

  John William Draper (1973). “Scientific memoirs, being experimental contributions to a knowledge of radiant energy”, Ayer Co Pub

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• The best people in a dying culture are the outcasts considered crazy by the leaders; the ones most disillusioned with their own culture. In Yeats' phrase, "the best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity." Intense emotional attachment to any value, any virtue, any set of "shoulds" is a disease, a mental illness, a condition of self-murder and cultural assassination.

  Brad Blanton

  Crazy, Emotional, Attachment

  Brad Blanton (1996). “Radical Honesty: How to Transform Your Life by Telling the Truth”, Dell

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• There you have it: an expensive higher education based on sloganeering, on pat, trite phrases that substitute moral posturing for political reasoning. It's elitism masquerading as egalitarianism.

  Camille Paglia

  Egalitarianism, Political, Politics

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• One of the most common words in the invalidating, self-blaming stories we believe about ourselves or our situations is the word "should." The psychologist Albert Ellis has coined the phrase "Stop shoulding on yourself." When you tell yourself that you should feel or be another way, you are likely to feel bad about yourself. As an alternative, try telling yourself that it is okay to feel or be the way you are, even though you have some idea that you should feel or be different.

  William Hudson O'Hanlon

  Believe, Self, Ideas

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• I have been, as the phrase is, liberally educated, and am fit for nothing.

  Charles Dickens

  Fit, Educated, Has Beens

  Charles Dickens (2009). “Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of 'eighty: Easyread Large Edition”, p.216, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Sometimes he even embarrassed the company by phrases suggesting that there was some difference between a Liberal and a Conservative.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Differences, Conservative, Sometimes

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• How very seldom do you encounter in the world a man of great abilities, acquirements, experience, who will unmask his mind, unbutton his brains, and pour forth in careless and picturesque phrase all the results of his studies and observation; his knowledge of men, books, and nature. On the contrary, if a man has by any chance an original idea, he hoards it as if it were old gold; and rather avoids the subject with which he is most conversant, from fear that you may appropriate his best thoughts.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Book, Men, Ideas

  "Coningsby". Book by Benjamin Disraeli, Book VII, Ch. 2, 1844.

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• Ever been kidnapped by a poet if i were a poet i'd kidnap you put you in my phrases and meter.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Poetry, Meter, Kidnapped

  Nikki Giovanni (2009). “Love Poems”, p.19, Harper Collins

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• The language of the totalist environment is characterized by the thought-terminating cliché. The most far-reaching and complex of human problems are compressed into brief, highly reductive, definitive-sounding phrases, easily memorized and easily expressed. These become the start and finish of any ideological analysis.

  Robert Jay Lifton

  Analysis, Language, Problem

  Robert Jay Lifton (1989). “Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism: A Study of "brainwashing" in China”, p.429, UNC Press Books

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• Fine phrases I value more than bank-notes. I have ear for no other harmony than the harmony of words. To be occasionally quoted is the only fame I care for.

  Alexander Smith

  Ears, Care, Harmony

  Alexander Smith (1863). “Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.144

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• I don't understand this phrase 'I've paid my dues.' We didn't have any money and lived on peanut butter and jelly, and I loved it. I don't regret any of it. We never expected to make it this far, but we worked hard to get here.

  Ronnie Van Zant

  Regret, Peanut Butter, Jelly

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• I believe that anyone using the phrase 'That's so cool' should have to stand in the corner.

  Stephen King

  Believe, Should Have, Corners

  Stephen King (2000). “On Writing: A Memoir Of The Craft”, p.75, Simon and Schuster

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• The ordinary politician has a very low estimate of human nature. In his daily life he comes into contact chiefly with persons who want to get something or to avoid something. Beyond this circle of seekers after privileges, individuals and organized minorities, he is aware of a large unorganized, indifferent mass of citizens who ask nothing in particular and rarely complain. The politician comes after a while to think that the art of politics is to satisfy the seekers after favors and to mollify the inchoate mass with noble sentiments and patriotic phrases.

  Walter Lippmann

  Art, Patriotic, Thinking

  Walter Lippmann, Clinton Rossiter, James Lare (1982). “The Essential Lippmann: A Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy”, p.122, Harvard University Press

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• Just as in habiliments it is a sign of weakness to wish to make oneself noticeable by some peculiar and unaccustomed fashion, so, in language, the quest for new-fangled phrases and little-known words comes from a puerile and pedantic ambition.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Fashion, Ambition, Wish

  Michel de Montaigne (1925). “The essays of Montaigne”

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• Clergymen and people who use phrases without wisdom sometimes talk of suffering as a mystery. It is really a revelation.

  Oscar Wilde

  People, Suffering, Use

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: De profundis, "Epistola : in carcere et vinculis"”, p.105, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• Battered women is a phrase that uncovered major, long-hidden violence. It helps us to face the fact that, statistically speaking, the most dangerous place for a woman is in her own home, not in the streets.

  Gloria Steinem

  Home, Long, Faces

  Gloria Steinem (1986). “Outrageous acts and everyday rebellions”, New Amer Library

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• Many ideas have been transformed by adding one crucial adjective-women's bank, women's music, women's studies, women's caucus. That adjective did more than change a phrase. It implied a lot of new content: child care, flexible work hours, new standards of creditworthiness, new symbolism, new lyrics.

  Gloria Steinem

  Children, Ideas, Symbolism

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• My phrase has always been that I am looking for the versatility of theatre in film. I think I have been quite lucky in that so far.

  Miranda Richardson

  Thinking, Theatre, Lucky

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• There's a lot of people over time who have brought out all these funky records that everybody has started jumping on like a catch phrase... When Planet Rock came out, then you had all of the electro funk records.

  Afrika Bambaataa

  Jumping, Rocks, People

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• There is a phrase in French, which means 'to miss.' To pass by. To not be able to stop. You love someone and someone loves you, but it just can't work for different reasons.

  Emmanuelle Beart

  Love You, Mean, Missing

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Ric Flair is one of the most entertaining guys to sit down with and by entertaining I don't mean he has catchy phrases, but that he's been through so much and his experiences are so genuine I could listen to him talk all day.

  John Cena

  Mean, Guy, Catchy

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• 'Big business' was a bad phrase in India. To be accused of being big business was the worst accusation you could make. All that has gone now. The whole mindset has changed.

  P. Chidambaram

  India, Gone, Mindset

  "Commanding Heights" Interview, www.pbs.org. February 06, 2001.

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