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«Let us speak, though we show all our faults and weaknesses, -for it is a sign of strength to be weak, to know it, and out with it - not in a set way and ostentatiously, though, but incidentally and without premeditation.»
Author: Herman Melville
(Novelist, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
incidentally, ostentatiously, premeditation, weaknesses
«Each and every one of us has one obligation, during the bewildered days of our pilgrimage here: the saving of his own soul, and secondarily and incidentally thereby affecting for good such other souls as come under our influence»
Author: Kathleen Norris
| About:
Obligation
| Keywords:
affecting, bewildered, incidentally, pilgrimage, saving, secondarily, thereby
«The world's literature and folklore are full of stories that point out how futile it can be to seek happiness. Rather, happiness is a blessing that comes to you as you go along; a treasure that you incidentally find.»
«I don't want to live. I want to love first, and live incidentally.»
Author: Zelda Fitzgerald
| About:
Life,
Love,
Priorities,
Purpose
| Keywords:
first, How We Live, incidentally, I Want to Live, live, live over, love, To Live, want
«Incidentally, disturbance from cosmic background radiation is something we have all experienced. Tune your television to any channel it doesn't receive, and about 1 percent of the dancing static you see is accounted for by this ancient remnant of the Big Bang. The next time you complain that there is nothing on, remember that you can always watch the birth of the universe.»
Author: Bill Bryson
(Writer)
| Keywords:
accounted, ancient, background, backgrounds, Background and, background radiation, bang, banged, banging, bangs, bang out, big bang, complain, cosmic, dancing, disturbance, disturbances, experienced, incidentally, in the background, radiation, remnant, remnants, static, the Big, The Big Bang, The Channels, The Dancing, tune
«Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained.»
Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
(Novelist, Writer)
| About:
Happiness,
World
| Keywords:
attained, chase, goose, incidentally, The Object of, wild-goose chase
«TURKEY, n. A large bird whose flesh when eaten on certain religious anniversaries has the peculiar property of attesting piety and gratitude. Incidentally, it is pretty good eating.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
anniversaries, anniversary, attest, attested, attesting, attests, incidentally, piety, turkey
«THE airplane has to land at a certain place in order to take in those who have reserved the right to fly by the tickets that they have purchased. So too the Lord has to come down so that those who have won the right to be liberated may be saved. Incidentally, others too will know of the Lord, of His Grace and ways of winning it and of the joy of liberation. There are some who deny even today the possibility of air-travel; they curse the contrivance. They cavil at it. Similarly there are many who cavil at the Avatar that has come to save them.»
Author: Sri Sathya Sai Baba
(Spiritual leader)
| Keywords:
airplane, air travel, avatar, cavil, contrivance, contrivances, fly by, incidentally, reserved, take in, tickets
«The chief problem about death, incidentally, is the fear that there may be no afterlife -- a depressing thought, particularly for those who have bothered to shave. Also, there is the fear that there is an afterlife but no one will know where it's being held»
Author: Woody Allen
(Actor, Author, Film Director, Screenwriter)
| Keywords:
afterlife, bothered, depressing, incidentally, shave
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