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Familiar Quotations

Certificating

You are educated. Your certification is in your degree. You may think of it as the ticket to the good life. Let me ask you to think of an alternative. Think of it as your ticket to change the world.–Tom Brokaw

In the early days of the Indian Territory, there were no such things as birth certificates. You being there was certificate enough.–Will Rogers

Certificating – "Confirm"

Faith makes a Christian. Life proves a Christian. Trial confirms a Christian. Death crowns a Christian.–Anonymous

All law has for its object to confirm and exalt into a system the exploitation of the workers by a ruling class.–Mikhail Bakunin

For my confirmation, I didn't get a watch and my first pair of long pants, like most Lutheran boys. I got a telescope. My mother thought it would make the best gift.–Wernher von Braun

Afflictions sent by providence melt the constancy of the noble minded, but confirm the obduracy of the vile, as the same furnace that liquefies the gold, hardens the clay.–Charles Caleb Colton

Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.–Lawrence Durrell

Every human being is trying to say something to others. Trying to cry out I am alive, notice me! Speak to me! Confirm that I am important, that I matter!!–Marion D. Hanks

Women's propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.–Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

I wanted to meet stimulating and interesting people of an ancient culture and kill them. I wanted to be the first kid on my block to get a confirmed kill.–Full Metal Jacket

• Preface v
• Familiar Quotations 1
• Certificating 1
• Certificating – "Confirm" 1
• Certificating – "Credentials" 2
• Use in Literature 3
• Certificating 3
• Certificating – "Being" 12
• Certificating – "Blocks" 13
• Certificating – "Case" 13
• Certificating – "City" 14
• Certificating – "Confirm" 14
• Certificating – "Corroboration" 16
• Certificating – "Credentials" 16
• Certificating – "Days" 16
• Certificating – "Death" 18
• Certificating – "Doctor's" 19
• Certificating – "Dollars" 20
• Certificating – "Examination" 20
• Certificating – "Father" 21
• Certificating – "Found" 22
• Certificating – "Go" 22
• Certificating – "Great" 23
• Certificating – "Hand" 23
• Certificating – "Having" 24
• Certificating – "Man" 25
• Certificating – "Married" 26
• Certificating – "Money" 28
• Certificating – "Names" 28
• Certificating – "Old" 29
• Certificating – "Once" 30
• Certificating – "Order" 30
• Certificating – "Paper" 31
• Certificating – "Paid" 31
• Certificating – "Presented" 32
• Certificating – "Produce" 32
• Certificating – "Receive" 33
• Certificating – "Register" 34
• Certificating – "School" 34
• Certificating – "Show" 35
• Certificating – "Signed" 36
• Certificating – "Stationer's" 36
• Certificating – "Stock" 37
• Certificating – "Works" 38
• Certificating – "Year" 38
• Certificating – "Young" 39
• Nonfiction Usage 40
• Bibliographic Usage 40
• Encyclopedic Usage 41
• Lexicographic Usage 72
• Index 175