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| Author | Quotation |
Francis Bacon | Our humanity were a poor thing were it not for the divinity which stirs within us. |
Samuel Johnson | Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess. |
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
John Locke | 1690 | And were it not for the corruption and vitiousness of degenerate men, there would be no need of any other; no necessity that men should separate from this great and natural community, and by positive agreements combine into smaller and divided associations. (Second Treatise of Government) |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Political Economy | MOROCCO | The current year budget deficit would be approximately 8 percent of GDP were it not for over $2.1 billion in privatization receipts garnered from the partial privatization of the state telecommunications operator Maroc Telecom. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | DELUSION, n. The father of a most respectable family, comprising Enthusiasm, Affection, Self-denial, Faith, Hope, Charity and many other goodly sons and daughters. All hail, Delusion! Were it not for thee The world turned topsy-turvy we should see; For Vice, respectable with cleanly fancies, Would fly abandoned Virtue's gross advances. Mumfrey Mappel |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
George Washington | 1789-1797 | This would be still more the case were it not for the impediments which in some places continue to embarrass the collection of the duties on spirits distilled within the United States. |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | Were it not for the private sector, the tiny private sector tolerated in Soviet agriculture, the country might be on the brink of famine. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Translations for "WERE IT NOT FOR"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Hebrew | אלמלא (if, if only). (various references) | ||||
Manx | myrragh (as like, as not, as were, only for). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | ereway itay otnay orfay | ||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | absque. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-f-i-n-o-o-r-r-t-t-w" | |
-3 letters: rewritten. | |
-4 letters: forewent, foreworn, frettier, frontier, interrow, reorient, retrofit, rooftree, rottener, tenorite, towerier, winterer. | |
-5 letters: fernier, ferrite, footier, forwent, forworn, fretter, fritter, fronter, frowner, nettier, oftener, onerier, refiner, refront, reinter, rentier, rewrite, rewrote, rootier, rotifer, tentier, terrine, torrent, tortoni, tritone, written. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)57 45 52 45 49 54 4E 4F 54 46 4F 52 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010111 01000101 01010010 01000101 00100000 01001001 01010100 00100000 01001110 01001111 01010100 00100000 01000110 01001111 01010010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)W E R E   I T   N O T   F O R |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0057 0045 0052 0045 0049 0054 004E 004F 0054 0046 004F 0052 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)573952392435424849542404952 |
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