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«One is happy as a result of one's own efforts once one knows the necessary ingredients of happiness simple tastes, a certain degree of courage, self denial to a point, love of work, and above all, a clear conscience.»
Author: George Sand
| About:
Happiness
| Keywords:
degree, denial, efforts, ingredients, self-denial, tastes
«Success in any endeavor depends on the degree to which it is an expression of your true self.»
«People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.»
«The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons»
Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
(Novelist, Writer)
| About:
Civilization
| Keywords:
civilization, Civilization I, degree, entering, judged, prisons, society
«The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity»
Author: George Santayana
(Humanist, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Imagination,
Poetry,
Reality
| Keywords:
degree, dominates, exact
«The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. [For] to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves-and the better the teacher, the better the student body.»
Author: Warren Buffett
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Journalism,
Press,
Reading,
Society
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better off, degree, inform, informing, informs, In the press, Journalists, press, press on, smarter, student, teacher, the press, The Teacher, well-off
«The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts.»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Emotion
| Keywords:
degree, emotions, facts, inversely, varies
«The chief forms of beauty are order and symmetry and definiteness, which the mathematical sciences demonstrate in a special degree.»
Author: Aristotle
(Philosopher, Physician, Scientist)
| Keywords:
chief, definiteness, degree, demonstrate, demonstrating, mathematical, sciences, symmetry, The Chief
«Personally, I experience the greatest degree of pleasure in having contact with works of art. They furnish me with happy feelings of an intensity such as I cannot derive from other realms.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| About:
Art
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art, contact, degree, derive, deriving, do work, experience, feelings, from, furnish, furnished with, furnishing, greatest, happy, Having, intensities, intensity, in degree, other, out of work, personally, pleasure, pleasuring, realms, such, such as, The Greatest, to that degree, works, work over, work through, work up
«One great question underlies our experience, whether we think about it or not: what is the purpose of life? From the moment of birth every human being wants happiness and does not want suffering. Neither social conditioning nor education nor ideology affects this. From the very core of our being, we simply desire contentment. Therefore, it is important to discover what will bring about the greatest degree of happiness»
Author: Dalai Lama
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affects, birth, bring about, conditioning, contentment, core, degree, discover, human being, ideology, neither, question, social, suffering, therefore, think about, underlie, underlies
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