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Letter "A" » Almost always
«If we only wanted to be happy, it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, and that is almost always difficult, since we think them happier than they are»
Author: Charles de Montesquieu
(Philosopher, Politician)
| About:
Happiness
| Keywords:
Almost always, happier, wanted
«How intoxicating is the triumph of beauty, and how right it is to name it queen of the universe! How many courtiers, how many slaves, have submitted to it! But alas! Why must it be that what flatters our senses almost always deceives our souls?»
Author: de Surin
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alas, Almost always, courtier, courtiers, deceives, flatters, intoxicate, intoxicating, queen, Queen of, slaves, submitted
«I seldom end up where I wanted to go, but almost always end up where I need to be.»
«Have you noticed in your past experience that your kind interpretations were almost always truer than you harsh one?»
Author: Lawrence G. Lovasik
(Priest)
| About:
Experience
| Keywords:
Almost always, harsh, interpretations, truer
«I believe that always, or almost always, in all childhood and in all the lives that follow them, the mother represents madness. Our mothers always remain the strangest, craziest people we've ever met.»
Author: Marguerite Duras
(Film Director, Novelist, Playwright, Screenwriter)
| Keywords:
Almost always, craziest, represents, strangest
«In politics... shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships.»
Author: Alexis de Tocqueville
(Historian, Political scientist)
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Almost always, friendships, hatreds, shared
«Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt, to offer a solution everybody can understand.»
Author: Colin Powell
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Almost always, argument, cut, cut through, debate, debated, debating, leaders, offer, solution
«Innovators and men of genius have almost always been regarded as fools at the beginning (and very often at the end) of their careers.»
Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
(Novelist, Writer)
| Keywords:
Almost always, careers, innovator, innovators, regarded
«Metaphysics is almost always an attempt to prove the incredible by an appeal to the unintelligible»
«Let anyone try to cut a thought across the middle and get a look at its section, and he will see how difficult the introspective observation. . . . is. The rush of the thought is always so headlong that it almost always brings us up at the conclusion before we can arrest it. [Introspective analysis] is in fact like seizing a spinning top to catch its motion, or trying to turn up the gas quickly enough to see how the darkness looks.»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
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Almost always, analysis, arrest, cut across, gas, get a look, headlong, introspective, rush, section, sections, seizing, spinning, spinning top, The Conclusion, turn up
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