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«One could probably liken the task of improvising a six-part fugue to the playing of sixty simultaneous blindfold games of chess, and winning them all»
Author: Douglas Hofstadter
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«I will greet this day with love in my heart. For this is the greatest secret of success in all ventures. Muscles can split a shield and even destroy life itself but only the unseen power of love can open the hearts of man. And until I master this act I will remain no more than a peddler in the marketplace. I will make love my greatest weapon and none on who I call can defend upon its force... my love will melt all hearts liken to the sun whose rays soften the coldest day.»
Author: Og Mandino
(Essayist, Psychologist)
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«But whereunto shall I liken this generation? It is like unto children sitting in the markets, and calling unto their fellows, / And saying, We have piped unto you, and ye have not danced; we have mourned unto you, and ye have not lamented.»
«What thing shall I take to witness for thee? what thing shall I liken to thee, O daughter of Jerusalem? what shall I equal to thee, that I may comfort thee, O virgin daughter of Zion? for thy breach is great like the sea: who can heal thee? / Thy prophets have seen vain and foolish things for thee: and they have not discovered thine iniquity, to turn away thy captivity; but have seen for thee false burdens and causes of banishment.»
Author: Bible
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«To whom will ye liken me, and make me equal, and compare me, that we may be like? / They lavish gold out of the bag, and weigh silver in the balance, and hire a goldsmith; and he maketh it a god: they fall down, yea, they worship.»
«To whom then will ye liken me, or shall I be equal? saith the Holy One.»
«And again he said, Whereunto shall I liken the kingdom of God? / It is like leaven, which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened.»
«And the Lord said, Whereunto then shall I liken the men of this generation? and to what are they like? / They are like unto children sitting in the marketplace, and calling one to another, and saying, We have piped unto you, and ye have not danced; we have mourned to you, and ye have not wept.»
Author: Bible
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«Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock: / And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock.»
«Cast aside those who liken godliness to whimsy and who try to combine their greed for wealth with their desire for a happy afterlife.»
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