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Letter "S" » special act
«Each victim of suicide gives his act a personal stamp which expresses his temperament, the special conditions in which he is involved, and which, consequently, cannot be explained by the social and general causes of the phenomenon.»
Author: Emile Durkheim
(Sociologist)
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«Play is a uniquely adaptive act, not subordinate to some other adaptive act, but with a special function of its own in human experience.»
Author: Johan Huizinga
(Historian)
| About:
Play
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«Never neglect the little things. Never skimp on that extra effort, that additional few minutes, that soft word of praise or thanks, that delivery of the very best that you can do. It does not matter what others think, it is of prime importance, however, what you think about you. You can never do your best, which should always be your trademark, if you are cutting corners and shirking responsibilities. You are special. Act it. Never neglect the little things.»
Author: Og Mandino
(Essayist, Psychologist)
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«The best advisers, helpers and friends, always are not those who tell us how to act in special cases, but who give us, out of themselves, the ardent spirit and desire to act right, and leave us then, even through many blunders, to find out what our own form of right action is.»
Author: Phillip Brooks
| About:
Advice,
Friends
| Keywords:
adviser, advisers, ardent, blunders, helpers, special act, special case
«Marriage requires a special talent, like acting. Monogamy requires genius.»
«We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universes, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act.»
Author: Charles Darwin
(Author, Naturalist)
| About:
Universe
| Keywords:
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«We can act as if there were a God; feel as if we were free; consider Nature as if she were full of special designs; lay plans as if we were to be immortal; and we find then that these words do make a genuine difference in our moral life.»
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