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«Most of life is routine - dull and grubby, but routine is the momentum that keeps a man going. If you wait for inspiration you'll be standing on the corner after the parade is a mile down the street.»
Author: Ben Nicholas
| About:
Life
| Keywords:
corner, grubby, mile, parade, paraded, parading, routine, street corner
«None of us knows what the next change is going to be, what unexpected opportunity is just around the corner, waiting a few months or a few years to change all the tenor of our lives.»
Author: Kathleen Norris
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Change
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around, a few, corner, cornered, each month, months, month by month, next, none, opportunity, tenor, Tenors, the next, This month, unexpected, waiting, years
«If I should die, think only this of me: that there's some corner of a foreign field that is for ever England.»
«If you leave the smallest corner of your head vacant for a moment, other people's opinions will rush in from all quarters»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
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corner, opinions, quarters, rush, rush out, smallest, the smallest, vacant
«Let mystery have its place in you; do not be always turning up your whole soil with the ploughshare of self-examination, but leave a little fallow corner in your heart ready for any seed the winds may bring...»
Author: Henri Frederic Amiel
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Mystery
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corner, examination, fallow, For any, Left Turn, ploughshare, self-examination, soil, turning, winds
«Poetry is the kind of thing you have to see from the corner of your eye. You can be too well prepared for poetry. A conscientious interest in it is worse than no interest at all. . . . It's like a very faint star. If you look straight at it you can't see it, but if you look a little to one side it is there.»
«Life is a brief, small, and transitory phenomenon in an obscure corner, not at all the sort of thing that one would make a fuss about if one were not personally concerned»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
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Life
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brief, concerned, corner, fuss, fussed, fussing, obscure, obscures, obscurest, personally, phenomenon, transitory
«I could not, at any age, be content to take my place in a corner by the fireside and simply look on.»
Author: Eleanor Roosevelt
(Diplomat, First Lady, Humanitarian)
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corner, fireside, firesides, look on
«Sometimes I've been to a party where no one spoke to me for a whole evening. The men, frightened by their wives or sweeties...the ladies would gang up in a corner and discuss my dangerous character.»
Author: Marilyn Monroe
(Actress)
| About:
Men and Women
| Keywords:
corner, discuss, frightened, gang, gangs, gang up, ladies, party man, spoke, sweetie, wives
«I had rather be a toad And live upon the vapor of a dungeon Than keep a corner in the thing I love For others' uses»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
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corner, dungeon, dungeons, The Vapors, toad, vapor, vapors
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