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Letter "P" » polishing
«I see no reason why I should tickle stones or waste time on polishing bronze.»
«Our modern society is engaged in polishing and decorating the cage in which man is kept imprisoned.»
Author: Swami Nirmalananda
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Society
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cage in, decorate, decorated, decorates, decorating, engaged, imprisoned, imprisons, kept, modern, modern society, polishes, polishing, The Cage
«Everyone sees the unseen in proportion to the clarity of his heart, and that depends upon how much he has polished it. Whoever has polished it more sees more - more unseen forms become manifest to him.»
Author: Jalal ad-Din Rumi
(Mystic, Poet)
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clarity, in proportion to, manifest, polished, polishes, polishing, proportion, The Unseen, unseen
«Life is a grindstone, and whether it grinds a man down or polishes him up depends on the stuff he's made of»
Author: Josh Billings
(Humorist)
| About:
Life
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depends, grinds, grindstone, My Stuff, polishes, polishing, stuff
«I have a sweet tooth for song and music. This is my Polish sin.»
«Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with.»
Author: Thomas Carlyle
(Essayist, Historian)
| About:
Adversity
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diamond, diamond dust, jewels, polishes, polishing, The Diamond
«Her Nazarites were purer than snow, they were whiter than milk, they were more ruddy in body than rubies, their polishing was of sapphire: / Their visage is blacker than a coal; they are not known in the streets: their skin cleaveth to their bones; it is withered, it is become like a stick.»
«If you have the personalities down, you understand them and identify with them; you can stick them in any situation and have a pretty good idea of how they're going to respond. Then it's just a matter of sanding and polishing up the jokes. But if you've got more ambiguous characters or stock stereotypes, the plastic comes through and they don't work as well. These two characters clicked for me almost immediately and I feel very comfortable working with them.»
Author: Bill Watterson
(Author)
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ambiguous, click, clicked, clicking, clicks, good idea, identify, personalities, plastic, polishing, respond, sanding, stereotyped, stereotypes, stock
«A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.»
«A gem is not polished without rubbing, nor a man made perfect without trials»
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