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«A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity. I reckon, he said, with a twinkle in his eye, it because most nights I went to bed and slept when I should have sat up and worried.»
Author: Garson Kanin
(Actor, Film Director, Writer)
| About:
Age,
Longevity,
Questioning
| Keywords:
attributed, longevity, nights, ninety, reckon, reckons, Sat, slept, twinkle, twinkling, worried
«Be in the world like a traveler, or like a passer on, and reckon yourself as of the dead»
Author: Muhammad
(Religious leader)
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As of, dead reckoning, Passer, passers, reckon, reckons, The Dead, traveler
«All science requires mathematics. The knowledge of mathematical things is almost innate in us. This is the easiest of sciences, a fact which is obvious in that no one's brain rejects it; for laymen and people who are utterly illiterate know how to count and reckon.»
Author: Roger Bacon
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easiest, illiterate, innate, layman, laymen, mathematical, reckon, rejects, sciences
«Every therapeutic cure, and still more, any awkward attempt to show the patient the truth, tears him from the cradle of his freedom from responsibility and must therefore reckon with the most vehement resistance.»
«'Enjoying it?' I don't reckon he'd come home if Dad didn't make him. He's obsessed. Just don't get him onto the subject of his boss. According to Mr. Crouch...as I was saying to Mr Crouch...Mr. Crouch is of the opinion...Mr. Crouch was telling me...They'll be announcing their engagement any day now.»
Author: Joanne Kathleen Rowling
(Writer)
| Keywords:
announcing, Any Day Now, boss, come home, crouch, crouched, dad, engagement, engagements, enjoying, obsessed, onto, reckon
«And when he had begun to reckon, one was brought unto him, which owed him ten thousand talents.»
«And if a man sanctify unto the LORD a field which he hath bought, which is not of the fields of his possession; / Then the priest shall reckon unto him the worth of thy estimation, even unto the year of the jubile: and he shall give thine estimation in that day, as a holy thing unto the LORD.»
«But if he sanctify his field after the jubile, then the priest shall reckon unto him the money according to the years that remain, even unto the year of the jubile, and it shall be abated from thy estimation.»
«All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers, and with such pretences did I cheat myself. Surely a curious thing. That I should innocently take a bad half-crown of somebody else's manufacture, is reasonable enough; but that I should knowingly reckon the spurious coin of my own make, as good money!»
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