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«If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I'd still swim. And I'd despise the one who gave up.»
Author: Abraham Maslow
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| About:
Determination
| Keywords:
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«A custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black, stinking fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless»
Author: James I of England
| Keywords:
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«In the time of darkest defeat, victory may be nearest.»
«After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.»
Author: Aldous Huxley
(Critic, Novelist)
| About:
Silence
| Keywords:
expressing, inexpressible, nearest
«Do the work that's nearest, / Though it's dull at whiles, / Helping, when we meet them,/ Lame dogs over stiles.»
«A human being is part of a whole, called by us the Universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| About:
Mankind
| Keywords:
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«At a formal dinner party, the person nearest death should always be seated closest to the bathroom.»
Author: George Carlin
(Actor, Author, Comedian)
| About:
Death and dying
| Keywords:
bathroom, closest, dinner, dinner party, formal, nearest, seated
«I'm not feeling very well - I need a doctor immediately. Ring the nearest golf course.»
Author: Groucho Marx
(Actor, Comedian, Singer)
| Keywords:
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«India chose her places of pilgrimages on the top of hills and mountains, by the side of the holy rivers, in the heart of forests and by the shores of the ocean, which along with the sky, is our nearest visible symbol of the vast, the boundless, the i»
Author: Rabindranath Tagore
(Essayist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
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«A good friend is my nearest relation.»
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