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Down Quotes
Working the count, and watching things slip.
This page uses "down" across very different contexts — a baseball strategy built on working the count against a hitter's expectations, and a theory of absurdist humor rooted deep in the subconscious. For lighter, forward-looking sayings, try Downside quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is no question but that the laws and principles which Solon laid down both foreshadowed and prepared the way for all republics of later ages, including our own.
- Journalism
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- Nov 07, 2020
What passes for investigative journalism is finding somebody with their pants down - literally or otherwise.
- Nov 07, 2020
Any time the character is in a moral quandary is interesting. That's been true from the Greeks on down.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
My aunt had a season ticket for the Friday afternoon concerts, and I would go down for lessons. My lessons were Saturday morning.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was 24 when I was offered 'Doomwatch.' There was an option for a further series, and I turned it down. It is a wonderfully glorious thing to be unknowingly arrogant.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down.
- Gold Standard
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- Nov 07, 2020
The problem started before World War I. The gold standard was working fairly well. But it broke down because of the war and what happened in the 1920s. And then the U.S. started to become so dominant in the world, with the dollar becoming the central currency after the 1930s, the whole world economy shifted.
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