Sentence examples for straight thing from inspiring English sources

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From the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made, and so forth.So, Todd Akin.

Even Kant said that "out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever built".

He regularly invoked Kant in reproof: "Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made".

"The blades are wavy, so it is not a straight thing that gets right to the point, you have to go around it.

And, rather unexpectedly, quotes Immanuel Kant back at me: "Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made".

He said, citing Kant's dictum: "Our views of the newspapers depend upon our own views, and they are as crooked as the crooked timber of humanity from which no straight thing was ever made".

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"...Canals are long, straight things, and when you draw a map it tends to be that sort of shape".

"This is not always a white-black, gay-straight thing.

My hair was doing that half-curly, half-straight thing, my makeup was faded.

Ordinary facts are straight forward things.

"NFL conduct policy is out that window at midnight, hoping everybody flies straight until things are resolved.

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