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Letter "O" » odd
«The ability to relate and to connect, sometimes in odd and yet striking fashion, lies at the very heart of any creative use of the mind, no matter in what field or discipline.»
«The doves in this country and some of the media are the cause of fifty-some-odd-thousand Americans being killed and all that money being spent, and all that inflation»
«There is no perfect solution to depression, nor should there be. And odd as this may sound we should be glad of that. It keeps us human.»
«Regret is an odd emotion because it comes only upon reflection. Regret lacks immediacy, and so its power seldom influences events when it could do some good.»
«There are two sorts of curiosity - the momentary and the permanent. The momentary is concerned with the odd appearance on the surface of things. The permanent is attracted by the amazing and consecutive life that flows on beneath the surface of things.»
Author: Robert Lynd
(Essayist, Journalist)
| Keywords:
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«This planet has -- or rather had -- a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movements of small green pieces of paper, which is odd because on the whole it wasn't the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy.»
Author: Douglas Adams
(Writer)
| Keywords:
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«The books one reads in childhood, and perhaps most of all the bad and good bad books, create in one's mind a sort of false map of the world, a series of fabulous countries into which one can retreat at odd moments throughout the rest of life, and whi»
Author: George Orwell
(Essayist, Novelist)
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Books
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childhood, countries, Country Life, fabulous, map, mind reading, odd, reads, retreat, retreats, series, the books, throughout, World Series
«The sun was shining on the sea, Shining with all his might: He did his very best to make The billows smooth and bright - And this was very odd, because it was The middle of the night»
«This is the third time; I hope good luck lies in odd numbers. . . . There is divinity in odd numbers, either in nativity, chance or death.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
divinity, good luck, Nativity, odd, odd number, The Third
«We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English.»
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