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Letter "M" » meanness
«When you're around people who look for the best in others, who get their thrills from bringing out the best in themselves - rather than people looking for the meanness in others - it brings out the best in you»
Author: Karen Trusdale
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Relationships
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bringing, brings, looking for, look for, meanness, The Thrills, thrills
«With the introduction of agriculture mankind entered upon a long period of meanness, misery, and madness, from which they are only now being freed by the beneficent operation of the machine.»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
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Agriculture
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beneficent, entered, enter upon, freed, introduction, meanness, operation, The Machine
«There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable; for in politics there is no honour.»
«The high-spirited man may indeed die, but he will not stoop to meanness. Fire, though it may be quenched, will not become cool.»
«Wealth and poverty: the one is the parent of luxury and indolence, and the other of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent»
Author: Plato
(Philosopher)
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Poverty
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discontent, indolence, luxury, meanness, parent, viciousness
«What I must do is all that concerns me. This rule, equally arduous in actual and intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It is harder because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
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actual, arduous, concerns, distinction, meanness
«When you give a lesson in meanness to a critter or a person, don't be surprised if they learn their lesson»
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