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«If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.»
Author: Bishop Desmond Tutu
(Novelist, Spiritual leader)
| About:
Injustice
| Keywords:
appreciate, chosen, Chosen The, elephant, foot, injustice, mouse, neutral, neutrals, not neutral, oppressor, situations, tail
«By prevailing over all obstacles and distractions, one may unfailingly arrive at his chosen goal or destination.»
Author: Christopher Columbus
(Adventurer, Navigator)
| About:
Goals
| Keywords:
arrive, arrive at, chosen, destination, distractions, Obstacles, preserving, unfailingly
«A good name is rather to be chosen than riches.»
Author: King Solomon
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chosen
«If you have not chosen the Kingdom of God first, it will in the end make no difference what you have chosen instead.»
«In order to excel, you must be completely dedicated to your chosen sport. You must also be prepared to work hard and be willing to accept destructive criticism. Without 100% dedication, you won't be able to do this.»
Author: Wilson Mizner
| About:
Dedication,
Doing Your Best,
Luck,
Sports,
Success
| Keywords:
chosen, dedicated, dedication, destructive, excel, sport
«Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen. Like friends, too, we should return to them again and again for, like true friends, they will never fail us - never cease to instruct - never cloy.»
Author: Charles Caleb Colton
| Keywords:
again and again, chosen, cloy, cloyed, cloying, instruct, Return to, well-chosen
«For the rest, whatever we have got has been by infinite labor, and search, and ranging through every corner of nature; the difference is that instead of dirt and poison, we have rather chosen to fill our hives with honey and wax, thus furnishing mankind with the two noblest of things, which are sweetness and light.»
Author: Jonathan Swift
(Author, Satirist)
| Keywords:
chosen, corner, dirt, furnishing, furnishings, have got, hive, hives, honey, noblest, poison, ranging, search and, sweetness, sweetness and light, wax, waxes, waxing
«A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.»
Author: Robert Frost
| About:
Juries and Judges,
Law and lawyers
| Keywords:
chosen, juries, jury, lawyer, persons, twelve
«Consider what you have in the smallest chosen library: a company of the wisest and wittiest men that could be picked out of all civil countries in a thousand years.... The thought which they did not uncover to their bosom friend is here written out in transparent words to us, the strangers of another age.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
bosom, chosen, civil, company, Company of, countries, library, out in, picked, smallest, Strangers, the smallest, The Strangers, transparent, uncover, uncovering, uncovers, wisest, wittiest
«Inspiration: A peculiar effect of divine flatulence emitted by the Holy Spirit which hisses into the ears of a few chosen of God»
Author: Voltaire
(Philosopher, Writer)
| About:
God,
Inspiration
| Keywords:
chosen, divine spirit, emit, emits, emitted, emitting, flatulence, hissed, hisses, Holy Spirit, inspiration, peculiar, the Holy Spirit
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