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appropriating

«If you spend more time asking appropriate questions rather than giving answers or opinions, your listening skills will increase»
«So many tangles in life are ultimately hopeless that we have no appropriate sword other than laughter.»
«Gum-chewing Americans, loaded with money and ignorant of history, might succeed in appropriating the country as the 51st state [or] the United Kingdom Theme Park Inc.»
«To appreciate and use correctly a valuable maxim requires a genius; a vital appropriating exercise of mind closely allied to that which first created it»
«In the future, instead of striving to be right at a high cost, it will be more appropriate to be flexible and plural at a lower cost. If you cannot accurately predict the future then you must flexibly be prepared to deal with various possible futures.»
«The appropriate age for marriage is around eighteen for girls and thirty-seven for men.»
«What is the appropriate behavior for a man or a woman in the midst of this world, where each person is clinging to his piece of debris? What's the proper salutation between people as they pass each other in this flood?»
«Yes, honey...Just squeeze your rage up into a bitter little ball and release it at an appropriate time, like that day I hit the referee with the whiskey bottle.»
«To eat is to appropriate by destruction.»
«We seek our friend not sacredly, but with an adulterate passion which would appropriate him to ourselves»