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«Adversity is like a strong wind. It tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that we see ourselves as we really are.»
Author: Arthur Golden
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Adversity
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«A meeting moves at the speed of the slowest mind in the room. (In other words, all but one participant will be bored, all but one mind underused.)»
Author: Dale Dauten
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Meetings
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all but, in other words, participant, the participants
«Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.»
Author: George Washington
(President)
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Courtesy
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«Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.»
Author: George Washington
(President)
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Friendship
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«As I bit into the nectarine, it had a crisp juiciness about it that was very pleasurable - until I realized it wasn't a nectarine at all, but A HUMAN HEAD!»
Author: Jack Handy
(Writer)
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«All mankind is of one author, and is one volume; when one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language; and every chapter must be so translated...As therefore the bell that rings to a sermon, calls not upon the preacher only, but upon the congregation to come: so this bell calls us all: but how much more me, who am brought so near the door by this sickness....No man is an island, entire of itself...any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.»
Author: John Donne
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«Be polite to all, but intimate with few.»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
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Relationships
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«Chance happens to all, but to turn chance to account is the gift of few.»
«Even though I was their captive, the Indians allowed me quite a bit of freedom. I could walk freely, make my own meals, and even hurl large rocks at their heads. It was only later that I discovered that they were not Indians at all but only dirty-clothes hampers.»
«Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.»
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