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«Men give me credit for some genius. All the genius I have is this. When I have a subject in mind. I study it profoundly. Day and night it is before me. My mind becomes pervaded with it... the effort which I have made is what people are pleased to call the fruit of genius. It is the fruit of labor and thought.»
Author: Alexander Hamilton
(Lawyer, Secretary, Soldier, Statesman, Thinker)
| Keywords:
day-and-night, For some, Labor Day, pervade, pervaded, pleased, profoundly, The Genius
«Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life»
Author: Andrew Brown
(Author, Journalist)
| About:
Internet
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For some, internet, pointless, So Big, substitute
«Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.»
Author: C.S. Lewis
(Novelist, Scholar)
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Miracles
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«Justice is too good for some people and not good enough for the rest»
«In the summer I have this friend who I am closest to, and sometimes, in the winter, I long to call her up and say, come here and live with me, in this cold place. But we are summer friends. There is a rule it seems, that summer friends don't get together in the wintertime. Now, sitting here, waiting for her, I realize that I have never seen her in a winter coat, and for some reason that makes me sadder than anything else in the world.»
Author: Jacqueline Woodson
(Writer)
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calling together, call waiting, closest, coat, For some, for some reason, get together, Long To, Long Winter, sadder, summer, That Summer, winter, wintertime
«I am a Communist, a convinced Communist! For some that may be a fantasy. But to me it is my main goal.»
«Our attitude toward our own culture has recently been characterized by two qualities, braggadocio and petulance. Braggadocio -- empty boasting of American power, American virtue, American know-how -- has dominated our foreign relations now for some decades. Here at home -- within the family, so to speak -- our attitude to our culture expresses a superficially different spirit, the spirit of petulance. Never before, perhaps, has a culture been so fragmented into groups, each full of its own virtue, each annoyed and irritated at the others.»
Author: Daniel J. Boorstin
| Keywords:
American culture, American Express, annoyed, boasting, braggadocio, characterize, characterized, decades, dominated, expresses, For some, fragmented, groups, irritated, petulance, recently, relations, so to speak, superficially, Two Cultures
«It is difficult for some people to accept that love is a choice. This seems to run counter to the generally accepted theory of romantic love which expounds that love is inborn and as such requires no more than to accept it.»
Author: Leo F. Buscaglia
| About:
Choice,
Love,
Romantic love
| Keywords:
accepted, as such, counter, countered, counters, expound, expounding, expounds, For some, generally accepted, inborn, romantic, romantic love, theory of
«Money is kind of a base subject. Like water, food, air and housing, it affects everything yet for some reason the world of academics thinks it's a subject below their social standing.»
Author: Robert Kiyosaki
(Author, Speaker)
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Academics, affects, For some, for some reason, housing
«Noises at dawn will bring / Freedom for some, but not this peace / No bird can contradict.»
Author: W. H. Auden
(Dramatist, Editor, Poet)
| Keywords:
bird, contradict, dawn, For some, noises, Peace and Freedom
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