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New legislation has just been adopted by the International Labour Organization on the Worst Forms of Child Labor, such as bonded labour, prostitution and hazardous work.
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Not a very well-known fact, but on planes they always carry a trombone just in case there's a disaster and they need to keep morale up. All cabin crew - fully proficient in the trombone. And of course there's a double facility: if you ditch at sea, it can be used as a snorkel.
Remarkable Guide to the Orchestra -
Not eating breakfast is the worst thing you can do, that's really the take-home message for teenage girls.
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Not even the visionary or mystical experience ever lasts very long. It is for art to capture that experience, to offer it to, in the case of literature, its readers; to be, for a secular, materialist culture, some sort of replacement for what the love of god offers in the world of faith.
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Nothing clears up a case so much as stating it to another person.
Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Novels and Stories (2016) 206 -
Of all bad listeners, the worst and most terrible to encounter is the man who is so fond of listening that he wishes to hear, not only your conversation, but that of every other person in the room.
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Of all ghosts the ghosts of our old loves are the worst.
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Of all the cants which are canted in this canting world - though the cant of hypocrites may be the worst - the cant of criticism is the most tormenting!
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Of all the damnable waste of human life that ever was invented, clerking is the worst.
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Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst.
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Of all the ways of defining man, the worst is the one which makes him out to be a rational animal.
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Of course some days are easier than others, but my worst day is better than being in most humdrum occupations.
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Of the mental hazards, being scared is the worst. When you get scared, you get tense.
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One need only think of the weather, in which case the prediction even for a few days ahead is impossible.
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One of the great attractions of patriotism - it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what's more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous.
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One of the worst things that can happen to you in life is to win a bet on a horse at an early age.
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Our brains deal exclusively with special-case experiences. Only our minds are able to discover the generalized principles operating without exception in each and every special-experience case which if detected and mastered will give knowledgeable advantage in all instances.
Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth (1963)Richard Buckminster Fuller
American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, and inventor (1895 - 1983) -
Our brains our seventy year clocks, the angel of life winds them up once and for all, then closes the case, and gives the key into the hands of the angel of resurrection.
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Our faith is faith in someone else's faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.
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