#sharp

Organized crime is the dirty side of the sharp dollar. ↗

— James Chiles

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Britain is a textbook case of how growing inequality leads to economic crisis. The years before the crash were marked by a sharp rise in remortgaging and the growth of 0 percent balance transfer credit cards. By 2008 the UK had the highest ratio of household debt to GDP of any major economy. ↗

— Frances O'Grady

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At first sight experience seems to bury us under a flood of external objects, pressing upon us with a sharp and importunate reality, calling us out of ourselves in a thousand forms of action. ↗

— Walter Pater

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Solitude sharpens awareness of small pleasures otherwise lost. ↗

— Kevin Patterson

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As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend. ↗

— King Solomon

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I've got to get on myself to be sharp, funny and loose. ↗

— David Spade

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The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

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I was able to interpret the difference between the sharp, quick sound and the slow, deep sound of percussion and manipulate it, get a third sound out of things, if the beats were rapid enough. ↗

— Sunny Murray

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A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use. ↗

— Washington Irving

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The world continues to offer glittering prizes to those who have stout hearts and sharp swords. ↗

— F. E. Smith

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