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«Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.»
Author: Arthur Helps
(Historian, Novelist)
| Keywords:
accomplished, achieve, costs, decided, distaste, gain, immense, labor, self confidence, task, tedium, tiresome
«Bobby Fischer has an enormous knowledge of chess and his familiarity with the chess literature of the USSR is immense.»
Author: Boris Spassky
(Chess grandmaster)
| Keywords:
bobby, Bobby Fischer, chess, Fischer, immense, USSR
«Children are curious and are risk takers. They have lots of courage. They venture out into a world that is immense and dangerous. A child initially trusts life and the processes of life.»
«Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development.»
Author: Kofi Annan
| About:
Democracy,
Education
| Keywords:
cornerstone, cornerstones, development, human development, human right, immense, sustainable, transform
«But somewhere, beyond space and time, is wetter water, slimier slime! And there (they trust) there swimmeth one, who swam ere rivers were begun. Immense, of fishy form and mind, squamous, omnipotent, and kind.»
Author: Rupert Brooke
(Poet)
| Keywords:
begun, fishy, immense, omnipotent, rivers, slime, slimier, slimy, space and time, swam, wetter
«As you begin to understand the immense power and love you hold inside, you will find an unending surge of joy, light and love that will nourish and support you all the days of your life.»
Author: Susan Jeffers
| Keywords:
immense, nourish, support, surge, surged, surges, surging, The Light of Day, unending
«For the perfect idler, for the passionate observer it becomes an immense source of enjoyment to establish his dwelling in the throng, in the ebb and flow, the bustle, the fleeting and the infinite. To be away from home and yet to feel at home anywhere; to see the world, to be at the very center of the world, and yet to be unseen of the world, such are some of the minor pleasures of those independent, intense and impartial spirits, who do not lend themselves easily to linguistic definitions. The observer is a prince enjoying his incognito wherever he goes.»
Author: Charles Baudelaire
(Poet)
| Keywords:
bustle, bustles, bustling, definitions, dwelling, ebb, ebbed, ebbing, ebbs, enjoying, enjoyment, establish, fleeting, flow away, idler, idlers, immense, impartial, incognito, independent, intense, lend, minor, observer, passionate, prince, spirits, The Observer, throng, thronged, thronging, unseen
«Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue.»
Author: Henry James
| About:
Experience
| Keywords:
borne, catching, chamber, chambering, finest, huge, immense, particle, sensibilities, sensibility, silken, spider, spider web, suspend, suspended, suspending, suspends, The Chamber, The Finest, threads, tissue, tissues, web
«Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored...»
Author: Herman Melville
(Novelist, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Death and dying
| Keywords:
immense, launching, region, region of, remote, salutation, salutations, The Strange, The Wild, untried, watery
«History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this»
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