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Familiar Quotations

Staples – "Basics"

The basic difference between being assertive and being aggressive is how our words and behavior affect the rights and well being of others.–Sharon Anthony Bower

The basic rule of human nature is that powerful people speak slowly and subservient people quickly --because if they don't speak fast nobody will listen to them.–Michael Caine

The basic idea which runs right through modern history and modern liberalism is that the public has got to be marginalized. The general public are viewed as no more than ignorant and meddlesome outsiders, a bewildered herd.–Noam Chomsky

The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words.–Philip Dick

The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are free not to do.–Eric Hoffer

Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal.–John F. Kennedy

The basic problems facing the world today are not susceptible to a military solution.–John F. Kennedy

The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line.–Henry Mencken

The basic principle of turning ideas into big money is to seize every money building idea and work with it until the idea fits your purpose, decide on the steps needed to make it work, and then proceed to do it as soon as possible.–Duane Newcomb

Staples – "Body"

The body is a community made up of its innumerable cells or inhabitants.–Thomas Edison

• Preface v
• Familiar Quotations 1
• Staples – "Basics" 1
• Staples – "Body" 1
• Staples – "Essentials" 2
• Staples – "Fundamental" 2
• Staples – "Materialism" 2
• Staples – "Nail" 2
• Use in Literature 3
• Staples 3
• Staples – "Cotton" 12
• Staples – "Few" 12
• Staples – "Food" 13
• Staples – "Forms" 14
• Staples – "French" 14
• Staples – "Fundamental" 15
• Staples – "Great" 16
• Staples – "Heavy" 17
• Staples – "Iron" 17
• Staples – "Land" 18
• Staples – "Life" 18
• Staples – "Materialism" 19
• Staples – "Nail" 19
• Staples – "Pin" 19
• Staples – "Place" 19
• Staples – "Produced" 20
• Staples – "Tobacco" 20
• Nonfiction Usage 22
• Journalism Usage 22
• Governmental Usage 30
• Patent Usage 31
• Bibliographic Usage 49
• Encyclopedic Usage 130
• Lexicographic Usage 142
• Index 188