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«We plan our lives according to a dream that came to us in our childhood, and we find that life alters our plans. And yet, at the end, from a rare height, we also see that our dream was our fate. It's just that providence had other ideas as to how we would get there. Destiny plans a different route, or turns the dream around, as if it were a riddle, and fulfills the dream in ways we couldn't have expected.»
«The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair»
Author: Douglas Adams
(Writer)
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Errors
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«The mere chink of cups and saucers turns the mind to happy repose»
«The first sign of maturity is the discovery that the volume knob also turns to the left.»
«We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.»
Author: C.S. Lewis
(Novelist, Scholar)
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Progress
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«The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.»
«The success of love is in the loving - it is not in the result of loving. Of course it is natural in love to want the best for the other person, but whether it turns out that way or not does not determine the value of what we have done.»
«When a woman turns to scholarship there is usually something wrong with her sexual opportunities»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
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Women
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opportunities, scholarship, sexual, turns, usually
«Verily the kindness that gazes upon itself in a mirror turns to stone, and a good deed that calls itself by tender names becomes the parent to a curse.»
«The true test of civilization is, not the census, nor the size of the cities, nor the crops, but the kind of man that the country turns out.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
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Civilization
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