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Letter "A" » absurdly
«First you write down your goal; your second job is to break down your goal into a series of steps, beginning with steps which are absurdly easy.»
«What makes us discontented with our condition is the absurdly exaggerated idea we have of the happiness of others.»
Author: French Proverb
| Keywords:
absurdly, condition, discontented, discontents, exaggerated, exaggerates, exaggerating, idea
«QUIXOTIC, adj. Absurdly chivalric, like Don Quixote. An insight into the beauty and excellence of this incomparable adjective is unhappily denied to him who has the misfortune to know that the gentleman's name is pronounced Ke-ho-tay.When ignorance from out of our lives can banish Philology, 'tis folly to know Spanish. --Juan Smith»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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absurdly, adj, adjective, adjectives, banish, chivalric, Don, Don Juan, Don Quixote, incomparable, insight, Juan, K.E., Ke, philology, pronounced, quixotic, smith, smiths, Spanish, Tay, unhappily
«Perhaps I'm old and tired, but I always think that the chances of finding out what really is going on are so absurdly remote that the only thing to do is to say hang the sense of it and just keep yourself occupied.»
«We find nothing easier than being wise, patient, superior. We drip with the oil of forbearance and sympathy, we are absurdly just, we forgive everything. For that very reason we ought to discipline ourselves a little; for that very reason we ought to cultivate a little emotion, a little emotional vice, from time to time. It may be hard for us; and among ourselves we may perhaps laugh at the appearance we thus present. But what of that! We no longer have any other mode of self-overcoming available to us: this is our asceticism, our penance.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
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absurdly, asceticism, available, cultivate, drip, dripped, forbearance, from time to time, mode, oil, overcoming, penance, sympathy
«People who count their chickens before they are hatched, act very wisely, because chickens run about so absurdly that it is impossible to count them accurately»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
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People
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absurdly, accurately, chickens, chicken out, count, hatched, hatches, hatching, wisely
«The tragedy of human life consists in our vain attempts to stretch the limits of things which can never become unlimited, to reach the infinite by absurdly adding to the rungs of the ladder of the finite.»
«Limiting birth by artificial means is an absurdly wrong step. The consequences of this act are irresponsible fatherhood or frustrated motherhood.»
Author: Sri Sathya Sai Baba
(Spiritual leader)
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absurdly, by artificial means, fatherhood, frustrated, irresponsible
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