My job involves searching for 'lost' quotations - that is, trying to find out who came up with a quotable saying that lingers in someone's mind and which they wish to use for their own purpose and which they cannot find in conventional dictionaries of quotation.

Nigel Rees

Came Cannot Conventional Dictionaries Find Involves Job Lingers Lost Mind Out Own Purpose Quotation Quotations Saying Searching Someone Trying Up Use Which Who Wish

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Euphemism in the workplace does not end with job descriptions. It reaches a pusillanimous peak at the other end of the work process - in dismissal.

DescriptionsDoesEnd

I'm not myself religious but have no wish to insult or denigrate those who are.

— Martin Rees

DenigrateInsultMyself

What I've tended to do is to use my own experiences to get into someone else's mind, like in Wuthering Heights.

ElseExperiencesGet

To me, searching for perfection isn't anywhere near as interesting as trying to find your own voice.

— Charlie Trotter

AnywhereFindInteresting

I wish we didn't have to own up to a policy deliberately designed to inflict suffering on people who have already been traumatised in the countries from which they've fled.

— Hugh Mackay

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