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«ORIGINALITY is unexplored territory. You get there by carrying a canoe -- you can't take a taxi.»
Author: Alan Alda
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canoe, canoes, carrying, originality, taxi, taxis, territories, territory, unexplored
«Tears are a river that takes you somewhere?Tears lift your boat off the rocks, off dry ground, carrying it downriver to someplace better.»
Author: Clarissa Pinkola Estes
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boat, carrying, carry off, downriver, get off the ground, someplace, The Rocks
«These are bagpipes. I understand the inventor of the bagpipes was inspired when he saw a man carrying an indignant, asthmatic pig under his arm. Unfortunately, the man-made sound never equalled the purity of the sound achieved by the pig.»
Author: Alfred Hitchcock
(Film Director)
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Inventions
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arm, asthmatic, bagpipe, bagpipes, carrying, indignant, inspired, inventor, pig, purity, the inventor, The Sound, unfortunately
«Music sweeps by me as a messenger - Carrying a message that is not for me»
«Napoleon affords us an example of the danger of elevating one's self to the absolute, and sacrificing everything to the carrying out of an idea.»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
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affords, An example, An example of, carrying, carrying out, elevating, napoleon, sacrificing, The Absolute
«The mantra becomes one's staff of life and carries one through every ordeal. Each repetition has a new meaning, carrying you nearer and nearer to God.»
Author: Mahatma Gandhi
(Philosopher)
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carries, carrying, nearer, New Gods, ordeal, ordeals, repetition, staff, staffed, staffs, staff of life
«The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
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banner, carrying, cowards, marching, procession, processions
«Laws that forbid the carrying of arms...disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes...Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
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armed, arms, assailant, assaulted, assaults, attacked, carrying, commit, confidence man, crimes, determined, disarm, disarmed, disarming, disarms, encourage, forbid, homicide, homicides, inclined, inclines, inclining, Laws, prevent, serve, unarmed
«One wants to be an honest man; one is so, one works hard; but still one cannot make both ends meet; on must give up the work, there is no chance of carrying it out without spending more on it than one gets back for it; one gets a feeling of shortcomi»
«The 1928 Republican Convention opened with a prayer. If the Lord can see His way clear to bless the Republican Party the way it's been carrying on, then the rest of us ought to get it without even asking.»
Author: Will Rogers
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God,
Politics
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bless, carrying, convention, Evening Prayer, opened, Republican, Republican Convention, Republican Party, the Convention, the conventions
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