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«Who knows where inspiration comes from. Perhaps it arises from desperation. Perhaps it comes from the flukes of the universe, the kindness of the muses.»
Author: Amy Tan
(Novelist, Writer)
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Inspiration
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arises, desperation, fluke, Muses
«True character arises from a deeper well than religion. It is the internalization of moral principles of a society, augmented by those tenets personally chosen by the individual, strong enough to endure through trials of solitude and adversity. The principles are fitted together into what we call integrity, literally the integrated self, wherein personal decisions feel good and true. Character is in turn the enduring source of virtue. It stands by itself and excites admiration in others.»
Author: Edward O. Wilson
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«Upon the whole, then it seems undeniable, that nothing can bestow more merit on any human creature than the sentiment of benevolence in an eminent degree; and that a part at least of its merit arises from its tendency to promote the interests of our»
Author: David Hume
(Economist, Essayist, Historian, Philosopher)
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arises, benevolence, bestow, eminent, promote, undeniable
«We exist solely because we have a body and a mind ? a mind that arises out of the body. If this were true, we would cease to exist after our body was gone.»
«The need for prostitution arises from the fact that many men are either unmarried or away from their wives on journeys, that such men are not content to remain continent, and that in a conventionally virtuous community they do not find respectable women.»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
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Respectability
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arises, Continent, conventionally, journeys, prostitution, respectable, unmarried, unmarried man
«The search for truth is in one way hard and in another way easy, for it is evident that no one can master it fully or miss it wholly. But each adds a little to our knowledge of nature, and from all the facts assembled there arises a certain grandeur.»
Author: Aristotle
(Philosopher, Physician, Scientist)
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Nature,
Truth
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adds, arises, assembled, assembling, evident, grandeur, one way, The Search, wholly
«We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.»
Author: Buddha
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Thought,
World
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«True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.»
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