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«In a controversy, the instant we feel anger, we have already ceased striving for truth and have begun striving for ourselves»
«Ideas came with explosive immediacy, like an instant birth. Human thought is like a monstrous pendulum; it keeps swinging from one extreme to the other.»
Author: Eugene Field
| About:
Ideas,
Thought
| Keywords:
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«I am your friend and my love for you goes deep. There is nothing I can give you which you have not got, But there is much, very much, that, while I cannot give it, you can take. No heaven can come to us unless our hearts find rest in today. Take heaven! No peace lies in the future which is not hidden in this present little instant. Take peace! The gloom of the world is but a shadow. Behind it, yet within our reach, is joy.»
Author: Fra Giovanni Giocondo
(Archeologist, Architect, Engineer)
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Friendship
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«It does not happen all at once. There is no instant pudding.»
Author: W. Edwards Deming
(Consultant, Educator, Stastistician)
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all at once, at once, instant, pudding, puddings
«I am responsible for everything except for my very responsibility, for I am not the foundation of my being. Therefore everything takes place as if I were compelled to be responsible. I am abandoned in the world... in the sense that I find myself suddenly alone and without help, engaged in a world for which I bear the whole responsibility without being able, whatever I do, to tear myself away from this responsibility for an instant.»
Author: Jean-Paul Sartre
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abandoned, compelled, engaged, foundation, instant, responsible for, sense of responsibility, suddenly, tear, The Foundation, The sense
«I put instant coffee in a microwave oven and almost went back in time.»
Author: Stephen Wright
(Actor, Writer)
| Keywords:
back in time, coffee, instant, instant coffee, in time, microwave, microwave oven, oven
«I did toy with the idea of doing a cook-book. The recipes were to be the routine ones: how to make dry toast, instant coffee, hearts of lettuce and brownies. But as an added attraction, at no extra charge, my idea was to put a fried egg on the cover. I think a lot of people who hate literature but love fried eggs would buy it if the price was right.»
«I bought some instant water one time but I didn't know what to add to it.»
«Let anyone try, I will not say to arrest, but to notice or to attend to, the present moment of time. One of the most baffling experiences occurs. Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| Keywords:
arrest, arresting, arrests, attend to, baffle, baffles, baffling, experiences, fled, flees, grasp, instant, melted, notice, occurs
«Let's take the instant by the forward top; for we are old, and on our quickest decrees, the inaudible and noiseless foot of time steals ere we can effect them»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
decreeing, decrees, inaudible, instant, noiseless, quickest, steals, The Forward
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