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«I cannot even imagine where I would be today were it not for that handful of friends who have given me a heart full of joy. Let's face it, friends make life a lot more fun.»
«If the human brain were so simple that we could understand it, we would be so simple that we couldn't.»
«Just think how happy you would be if you lost everything you have right now, and then got it back again.»
Author: Frances Rodman
| Keywords:
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«Leadership should be born out of the understanding of the needs of those who would be affected by it.»
Author: Marian Anderson
(Singer)
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affected, be born, Born, leadership, needs, understanding, would-be
«I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would be an affront to your intelligence.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
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«If most of us are ashamed of shabby clothes and shoddy furniture, let us be more ashamed of shabby ideas and shoddy philosophies... It would be a sad situation if the wrapper were better than the meat wrapped inside it.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
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«It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| About:
Science
| Keywords:
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«It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.»
Author: C.S. Lewis
(Novelist, Scholar)
| Keywords:
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«If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.»
Author: C.S. Lewis
(Novelist, Scholar)
| About:
Universe
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«I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
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