Sentence examples for quotation often from inspiring English sources

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"Buy land, they're not making it anymore," is a quotation often attributed to Mark Twain.

The fact-checking site Snopes said it found no evidence for a quotation, often attributed to Mr. Trump by the left, that Republican voters were stupid.

The work, which takes its title from a quotation often attributed to the decadent and irresponsible Louis XV of France, will be performed with Julian Wachner conducting the excellent Trinity Choir and the cellist Matt Haimovitz as soloist.

The pavement outside the station bears the words "Ambition is critical". This is a riposte to a quotation often incorrectly attributed to Thomas, that Swansea is the "graveyard of man's ambitions".

A quotation often attributed to (though never said by) Thatcher – "a man who, beyond the age of 26, finds himself on a bus, can count himself a failure" – distills this belief, which might be why it's stuck in the national psyche.

Your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be" (a quotation often attributed to Mark Twain but now thought to be the advice of William Allen White) Vespa scooters Vesta curries veterinary veto, vetoes, vetoed, vetoing Viagra TM; the generic is sildenafil citrate vicar a cleric of the Anglican church (which also has rectors and curates, etc), not of any other denomination.

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Such books are becoming the latest versions of "Bartlett's Famous Quotations," often sprinkling in the margins penetrating insights from Aristotle and Confucius, along with Lee Iacocca and Malcolm Forbes.

The recipes are laced with quotations, often related to herbs, such as, "We cannot make so much as a good pottage without herbes, which give an admirable relish and make them wholsom for our bodies".

Of course, quotations often serve as furniture in a house that a reporter is free to build as she or he (or their editor) wishes, so it's not as if sources can control the narrative by controlling what appears between quotation marks.

(Would the editors have invited T. S. Eliot to contribute? Just asking). Specific [End Page 582] poems are cited as examples; we are given quick glimpses and quotations, often as part of an argument related to poetic method or form on the "how-to" level.

The qualifier "apparently" is used because quotation marks in a citation often suggest earlier use, and zombie often refers to Japan's decision in the '80s to shore up its troubled banks in a way that led to its "lost decade" of stagflation.

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