"The Venus flytrap, a devouring organism, aptly named……" — Tennessee Williams

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• I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably applied, but to be forever discharging them, right… — Miguel de Cervantes
• In the aftermath of September 11, and as the 9/11 Commission report so aptly demonstrates, it is clear that our… — Hillary Clinton
• Government is frequently and aptly classed under two descriptions-a government of force, and a government of laws; the first is… — Alexander Hamilton
• The year 1896 ... marked the beginning of what has been aptly termed the heroic age of Physical Science. Never… — Ernest Rutherford
• This is not the age of pamphleteers. It is the age of the engineers. The spark-gap is mightier than the… — Lancelot Hogben
• Oh, dear God, thank you, you are such a good God to us. A kind and gentle and accommodating God,… — Ben Stiller
• With each success the ability to change is reduced. My longtime friend and coach Grandmaster Yuri Dokhoian, aptly compared it… — Garry Kasparov
• Popularity, I have always thought, may aptly be compared to a coquette-the more you woo her, the more apt is… — John Tyler
• From its aptly noirish title on, Martin Preib's The Wagon has rightness of authenticity about it. From the perspective of… — Stuart Dybek
• There is no less invention in aptly applying a thought found in a book, than in being the first author… — Robert Boyle
• What Bell is to the telephone—or, more aptly, what Eastman is to photography—Haloid could be to xerography. — Chester Carlson
• Compassion is aptly summed up in the Golden Rule, which asks us to look into our own hearts, discover what… — Karen Armstrong

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