Max Heller used a German-English dictionary and phrase book (on display) to write a letter in awkward English to a non-Jewish woman, Mary Mills, whom he had met years before at a Vienna dance.

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While the NBC series was based on a non-fiction book by Buzz Bissinger, the phrase was the creation of Berg, who adapted the book first as a movie and later as a show.

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For a reader the phrase that you should never judge a book by its cover daily is daily applicable to their life and every young bookworm is thrilled to wait in line to meet one of their biggest inspirations- their favorite author, signing books.

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These are empty information calories, to borrow a phrase from Clay Johnson's timely new book, The Information Diet.

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The phrase may never appear in the text, but this is really a book about Asian values.

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He was also called the Son of Man, reaching back to an ancient Hebraic phrase, which had rather humbling connotations. (It was in the Book of Daniel that a visionary figure called the Son of Man came into view, in apocalyptic terms).

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Observing that the indiscriminate use of pesticides were killing songbirds, she was inspired by a phrase from a John Keats poem "And no birds sing" to name the book.

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Bill Bonner, founder of Agora and a book-writing machine, has a steel-trap mind with an ability to turn a phrase that is way beyond that of your humble analyst.

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