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«Scientists tell us that the fastest animal on earth, with a top speed of 120 feet per second, is a cow that has been dropped out of a helicopter.»
Author: Dave Barry
(Humorist, Writer)
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Funny
| Keywords:
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«Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.»
Author: Edmond and Jules De Goncourt
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«Well, it seems to me that the best relationships - the ones that last - are frequently the ones that are rooted in friendship. You know, one day you look at the person and you see something more than you did the night before. Like a switch has been flicked somewhere. And the person who was just a friend is... suddenly the only person you can ever imagine yourself with»
Author: Gillian Anderson
(Actress)
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Relationships
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«Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic.»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
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ascetic, ascetics, condemn, condemning, drive, drive in, has-been, history, pleasures, power, religions, seek, sense, The Vice, throughout, vice
«We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the tone of voice in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
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accept, been, expressed, has-been, has, idea, it accepts, merely, My ideas, often, refuse, The Express, tone, tone of voice, tone up, U.S., unsympathetic, us, voice, voiced, voice over
«The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult and left untried.»
«The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
absurd, evidence, evidences, fact, has-been, held, in evidence, opinion, utterly, whatever, widely
«The Assembly has witnessed over the last weeks how historical truth is established; once an allegation has been repeated a few times, it is no longer an allegation, it is an established fact, even if no evidence has been brought out in order to support it.»
Author: Dag Hammarskjold
(Statesman)
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«Wait until it is night before saying that it has been a fine day»
«The word ''Christianity'' is already a misunderstanding - in reality there has been only one Christian, and he died on the Cross.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
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already, Christian, Christianity, cross, crossing over, Crossing the, cross out, died, has-been, in reality, misunderstanding, misunderstandings, misunderstands, reality, The cross, The Word, word
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