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«Miss Farrell has a voice like some unparalleled phenomenon of nature. She is to singers what Niagara is to waterfalls.»
Author: Alfred Frankenstein
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Farrell, Niagara, phenomenon, singers, unparalleled, waterfall, waterfalls
«Pain is a relatively objective, physical phenomenon; suffering is our psychological resistance to what happens. Events may create physical pain, but they do not in themselves create suffering. Resistance creates suffering. Stress happens when your mind resists what is...The only problem in your life is your mind's resistance to life as it unfolds.»
Author: Dan Millman
| Keywords:
creates, objective, phenomenon, Physical pain, physical phenomenon, psychological, relatively, resistance, resists, stress, unfolds
«Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another's soul.»
«Miss Truman is a unique American phenomenon with a pleasant voice of little size and fair quality. There are few moments during her recital when one can relax and feel confident that she will make her goal, which is the end of the song.»
«I did not want to be a tree, a flower or a wave. In a dancer's body, we as audience must see ourselves, not the imitated behavior of everyday actions, not the phenomenon of nature, not exotic creatures from another planet, but something of a miracle.»
Author: Martha Graham
(Choreographer, Dancer, Teacher)
| About:
Action,
Miracles
| Keywords:
another planet, dancer, exotic, imitated, phenomenon, wave
«Life is a brief, small, and transitory phenomenon in an obscure corner, not at all the sort of thing that one would make a fuss about if one were not personally concerned»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Life
| Keywords:
brief, concerned, corner, fuss, fussed, fussing, obscure, obscures, obscurest, personally, phenomenon, transitory
«I want to know how God created this world. I am not interested in this or that phenomenon, in the spectrum of this or that element. I want to know His thoughts; the rest are details.»
«No, this trick won't work...How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| About:
First love
| Keywords:
biological, chemistry, explain, First Love, in terms of, phenomenon, physic, physics, terms, trick
«Only as an aesthetic phenomenon is the world justified.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| Keywords:
aesthetic, justified, justifying, phenomenon
«I can remember how when I was young I believed death to be a phenomenon of the body; now I know it to be merely a function of the mind -- and that of the minds who suffer the bereavement. The nihilists say it is the end; the fundamentalists, the beginning; when in reality it is no more than a single tenant or family moving out of a tenement or a town.»
Author: William Faulkner
(Novelist, Writer)
| Keywords:
bereavement, fundamentalist, Fundamentalists, in reality, nihilist, nihilists, phenomenon, tenant, tenanted, tenanting, tenants, tenement, tenements, town
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