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The Knack

«Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.»
Author: C. E. Stowe | About: Common sense | Keywords: knack, Seeing Things, The Knack
«Technology... the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it.»
Author: Max Frisch | About: Technology | Keywords: arranging, knack, The Knack
«Some people have a knack of putting upon you gifts of no real value, to engage you to substantial gratitude. We thank them for nothing.»
Author: Charles Lamb (Critic, Essayist, Poet) | About: Gifts | Keywords: engage, knack, substantial, The Knack
«School, I never truly got the knack of. I could never focus on things I didn't want to learn.»
«Mistakes are at the very base of human thought feeding the structure like root nodules. If we were not provided with the knack of being wrong, we could never get anything useful done.»
«The greatest manager has a knack for making ballplayers think they are better than they think they are.»
Author: Reggie Jackson | Keywords: ballplayers, The Knack
«LAUREATE, adj. Crowned with leaves of the laurel. In England the Poet Laureate is an officer of the sovereign's court, acting as dancing skeleton at every royal feast and singing-mute at every royal funeral. Of all incumbents of that high office, Robert Southey had the most notable knack at drugging the Samson of public joy and cutting his hair to the quick; and he had an artistic color-sense which enabled him so to blacken a public grief as to give it the aspect of a national crime.»
«Stupidity has a knack of getting its way.»
«How do people go to sleep? I'm afraid I've lost the knack. I might try busting myself smartly over the temple with the nightlight. I might repeat to myself, slowly and soothingly, a list of quotations beautiful from minds profound; if I can remember»
«The knack of flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.»

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