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Letter "H" » heaping
«Science is built up of facts, as a house is built of stones; but an accumulation of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house»
Author: Henri Poincar
| About:
Science
| Keywords:
accumulation, accumulations, built, built up, facts, heap, heaped, heaping, heap up, house, no more, science, stones
«I don't believe in fate or destiny. I believe in various degrees of hatred, paranoia, and abandonment. However much of that gets heaped upon you doesn't matter - it's only a matter of how much you can take and what it does to you.»
«Passion in all its forms is a mental thirst, a fever, a torturing unrest. As a fire consumes a magnificent building, reducing it to a heap of unsightly ashes, so are men consumed by the flames of passions, and their deeds and works fall and perish.»
«A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction»
«I'm queen of my own compost heap, and I'm getting used to the smell.»
«Because a Bodhisattva who gives a gift should not be supported by a thing, nor should he be supported anywhere.The great being should give gifts in such a way that he is not supported by the notion of a sign and why ? Because the heap of merit of tha»
«As from a large heap of flowers many garlands and wreaths are made, so by a mortal in this life there is much good work to be done.»
«The true joy of life [is] being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one ... being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown to the scrap heap ... being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish clod of ailments and grievances.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
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ailment, clod, feverish, Forces of Nature, Force of Nature, heap, heaped, heaping, heap up, life force, mighty, recognized, scrap, scraps, selfish, thoroughly, thrown, worn, worn out
«A tree trunk the size of a man grows from a blade as thin as a hair. A tower nine stories high is built from a small heap of earth.»
«I don't like compliments, and I don't see why a man should think he is pleasing a woman enormously when he says to her a whole heap of things that he doesn't mean»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Compliments,
Men and Women
| Keywords:
complimented, compliments, enormously, heap, heaped, heaping, heap up, her, mean, pleasing, says, see, Seeing Things, should, The Whole Man, whole, why, woman
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