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Letter "A" » aimless
«If we would only give, just once, the same amount of reflection to what we want to get out of life that we give to the question of what to do with a two week's vacation, we would be startled at our false standards and the aimless procession of our bu»
«The English masses are lovable: they are kind, decent, tolerant, practical and not stupid. The tragedy is that they are too many of them, and that they are aimless, having outgrown the servile functions for which they were encouraged to multiply. One day these huge crowds will have to seize power because there will be nothing else for them to do, and yet they neither demand power nor are ready to make use of it; they will learn only to be bored in a new way.»
Author: Cyril Connolly
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aimless, crowds, encouraged, functions, multiply, outgrow, outgrowing, outgrown, outgrows, servile
«America's greatness has been the greatness of a free people who shared certain moral commitments. Freedom without moral commitment is aimless and promptly self-destructive.»
Author: John W. Gardner
(Secretary, Writer)
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aimless, commitments, destructive, free people, promptly, self-destructive, shared
«I always tried to make clear that basketball is not the ultimate. It is of small importance in comparison to the total life we live. There is only one kind of life that truly wins, and that is the one that places faith in the hands of the Savior. Until that is done, we are on an aimless course that runs in circles and goes nowhere.»
Author: John Wooden
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aimless, basketball, circles, comparison, comparisons, in circles, savior, Small circle, wins
«One must be out-of-doors enough to get experience of wholesome reality, as a ballast to thought and sentiment. Health requires this relaxation, this aimless life.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
aimless, ballast, out-of-door, out of doors, relaxation, sentiment, wholesome
«The spirit of our American radicalism is destructive and aimless; it is not loving; it has no ulterior and divine ends; but is destructive only out of hatred and selfishness.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
aimless, divine spirit, radicalism, ulterior
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