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«The art of love... is largely the art of persistence.»
«What an odd thing tourism is. You fly off to a strange land, eagerly abandoning all the comforts of home, and then expend vast quantities of time and money in a largely futile attempt to recapture the comforts that you wouldn't have lost if you hadn't left home in the first place.»
Author: Bill Bryson
(Writer)
| Keywords:
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«The relationships we have with the world are largely determined by the relationships we have with ourselves»
«The freedom that women were supposed to have found in the Sixties largely boiled down to easy contraception and abortion; things to make life easier for men, in fact.»
Author: Julie Burchill
(Columnist)
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abortion, boiled-down, boiled, contraception, largely, sixties, The Sixties
«The more developed sexual passion, in both sexes, is very largely an emotion of power, domination, or appropriation. There is no state of feeling that says ''mine, mine,'' more fiercely.»
Author: Charles Horton Cooley
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appropriation, appropriations, domination, fiercely, largely, sexes
«The size of your accomplishments, the quality of your achievement, will depend very largely on how big a man you see in yourself, what sort of image you get of your possible self, yourself at your best.»
Author: Orison Swett Marden
| About:
Achievement
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accomplishments, depend, image, largely, size
«This planet has -- or rather had -- a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movements of small green pieces of paper, which is odd because on the whole it wasn't the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy.»
Author: Douglas Adams
(Writer)
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«The nature of a society is largely determined by the direction in which talent and ambition flow - by the tilt of the social landscapes»
Author: Eric Hoffer
(Writer)
| About:
Society
| Keywords:
landscapes, largely, The Social, tilt, tilted, tilting, tilts
«The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outside conditions»
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
(Author, Essayist, Poet)
| About:
Happiness
| Keywords:
domination, enables, freed, largely, The Domination
«The interest in life does not lie in what people do, nor even in their relations to each other, but largely in the power to communicate with a third party, antagonistic, enigmatic, yet perhaps persuadable, which one may call life in general.»
Author: Virginia Woolf
(Writer)
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Communication
| Keywords:
antagonistic, communicate, enigmatic, general interest, in general, largely, lie in, persuadable, relations, third party, to each other
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