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«Politics is very much like taxes - everybody is against them, or everybody is for them as long as they don't apply to him»
Author: Fiorello La Guardia
(Lawyer, Mayor)
| About:
Politics,
Taxation
| Keywords:
apply, very much like
«The qualities and capacities that are important in running-such factors as will power, the ability to apply effort during extreme fatigue and the acceptance of pain-have a radiating power that subtly influences one's life.»
Author: James Fixx
| Keywords:
acceptance, apply, capacities, extreme, factors, fatigue, fatigued, fatigues, fatiguing, influences, radiated, radiates, radiating, subtly
«Sometimes oppurtunities float right past your nose. Work hard, apply yourself, and be ready. When an opportunity comes you can grab it.»
Author: Julie Andrews
(Actress, Singer)
| Keywords:
apply, float, floated, grab, grabbed, grabs, nose, nosed, nosing, on the nose, under his nose, under your nose
«People say to me, ''You were a roaring success. How did you do it?'' I go back to what my parents taught me. Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make something happen.»
«Physical pleasure is a sensual experience no different from pure seeing or the pure sensation with which a fine fruit fills the tongue; it is a great unending experience, which is given us, a knowing of the world, the fullness and the glory of all knowing. And not our acceptance of it is bad; the bad thing is that most people misuse and squander this experience and apply it as a stimulant at the tired spots of their lives and as distraction instead of a rallying toward exalted moments.»
Author: Rainer Maria Rilke
| Keywords:
acceptance, all knowing, apply, Bad Thing, distraction, distractions, exalted, exalting, exalts, fills, fruit, fullness, glory, misuse, physical thing, physical world, rallies, rally, rallying, seeing, sensation, sensual, spots, squander, squandered, squandering, squanders, stimulant, stimulants, tired, unending
«The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary.»
Author: Thomas Alva Edison
(Inventor)
| About:
Success
| Keywords:
apply, energies, incessantly, mental ability, mental energy, physical ability, requisite, requisites, weary
«The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to confess your ignorance.»
«The results you achieve will be in direct proportion to the effort you apply.»
Author: Denis Waitley
(Author, Speaker)
| Keywords:
achieve, apply, direct, Directed By, Direct proportion, effort, proportion, proportioned, resulted, results
«The measure of the restoration lies in the extent to which we apply social values more noble than mere monetary profits»
Author: Franklin D. Roosevelt
(President)
| Keywords:
apply, extent, monetary, profits, restoration, The Restoration
«That's what learning is, after all; not whether we lose the game, but how we lose and how we've changed because of it and what we take away from it that we never had before, to apply to other games. Losing, in a curious way, is winning.»
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