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«I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.»
Author: Karl Wilhelm von Humboldt
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Happiness
| Keywords:
am, convinced, convinces, depends, events, far, in any event, I am, meet, Meet The, more and more, on the way, themselves, The Way, unhappiness
«People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.»
Author: Blaise Pascal
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist)
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Discovery,
People
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convinced, discovered, reasons
«Parents have become so convinced that educators know what is best for their children that they forget that they themselves are really the experts.»
«Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.»
«I am convinced that nothing will happen to me, for I know the greatness of the task for which Providence has chosen me»
«Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.»
Author: Albert Camus
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
arguments, convinced, efforts, seriousness, sincerity
«Quantum mechanics is very impressive. But an inner voice tells me that it is not yet the real thing. The theory yields a lot, but it hardly brings us any closer to the secret of the Old One. In any case I am convinced that He doesn't play dice»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
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closer, convinced, dice, hardly, impressive, in any case, not yet, quantum, real thing, The Real Thing, yields
«No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means»
«I am convinced that the teaching of the church is in theory a crafty and evil lie, and in practice a concoction of gross superstition and witchcraft»
Author: Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
(Novelist, Philosopher, Thinker)
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church, concoction, convinced, craftiest, crafty, gross, grossed, grosser, grossest, gross out, in practice, in theory, superstition, teaching, theory, The Church, witchcraft
«Matisse makes a drawing, then he makes a copy of it. He recopies it five times, ten times, always clarifying the line. He's convinced that the last, the most stripped down, is the best, the purest, the definitive one; and in fact, most of the time, it was the first. In drawing, nothing is better than the first attempt.»
Author: Pablo Picasso
(Artist, Painter)
| Keywords:
attempt, clarified, clarifies, clarifying, convinced, copy, copying, definitive, drawing, draw a line, draw the line, five, in fact, line, one line, purest, stripped-down, stripped, ten, The Last
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