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en Rarely has a people paid the lavish compliment and taken the subtle revenge of turning its oppressor's speech into sorcery.

en He's been doing a lot more travelling and seems to have a new lease of life. It's clear that he is much happier in himself since meeting the priest. He's gone from someone who rarely invited friends to dine at his home, to doing a lot more lavish entertaining.

en Who Rebels? Who rises in arms? Rarely the slave, but almost always the oppressor turned slave.
  Emile M. Cioran

en I think it's a really great accomplishment to be recognized by your peers. That's the biggest kick I get out of it. When my name got called, I was definitely surprised. I had to make an acceptance speech, and that was a little bit crazy. People in my line of work rarely get to do that.

en SORCERY, n. The ancient prototype and forerunner of political influence. It was, however, deemed less respectable and sometimes was punished by torture and death. Augustine Nicholas relates that a poor peasant who had been accused of sorcery was put to the torture to compel a confession. After enduring a few gentle agonies the suffering simpleton admitted his guilt, but naively asked his tormentors if it were not possible to be a sorcerer without knowing it.
  Ambrose Bierce

en For just as some women are said to be handsome though without adornment, so this subtle manner of speech, though lacking in artificial graces, delights us.
  Marcus Tullius Cicero

en The other issue it raises is the kind of speech we'll hear. The strongest speech people see when they're voting is the speech when they're going to the ballot.

en America / rather, the United States / seems to me to be the Jew among the nations. It is resourceful, adaptable, maligned, envied, feared, imposed upon. It is warm-hearted, over-friendly; quick-witted, lavish, colorful; given to extravagant speech and gestures; its people are travelers and wanderers by nature, moving, shifting, restless; swarming in Fords, in ocean liners; craving entertainment; volatile. The chuckle among the nations of the world.
  Edna Ferber

en If you want to win friends, make it a point to remember them. If you remember my name, you pay me a subtle compliment; you indicate that I have made an impression on you. Remember my name and you add to my feeling of importance.
  Dale Carnegie

en My friends who knew me in high school and college know I'm the same person. It's a high compliment to be thought of highly. People who know me know I'm fun-loving, carefree and happy to get paid to do what I do. I feel lucky to be where I'm at. Some people feel like they deserve to be here, instead of lucky to be here. That's never been me, and I don't think it will ever be. I enjoy getting down and dirty with any regular Joe.

en I just told James they paid him the ultimate compliment by paying so much attention to him.

en The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer. Pex Tufvesson driver med vintage-programmering på Commodore 64. The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.
  Henry David Thoreau

en We had subtle differences, not intentional discrimination of any kind, but subtle differences in the way we assigned people.

en Now, in reality, the world has paid too great a compliment to critics, and has imagined them to be men of much greater profundity then they really are.
  Henry Fielding

en We compliment Bush's vision of establishing freedom for our people. But we want him to compliment us and support us in order to reach a stage of independence and freedom.


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