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«There is only one optimist. He has been here since man has been on this earth, and that is ''man'' himself. If we hadn't had such a magnificent optimism to carry us through all these things, we wouldn't be here. We have survived it on our optimism.»
«Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.»
Author: Richard M. Nixon
(President)
| Keywords:
be on, deepest, magnificent, mountain, only if, valley
«The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.»
«So there he is at last. Man on the moon. The poor magnificent bungler! He can't even get to the office without undergoing the agonies of the damned, but give him a little metal, a few chemicals, some wire and twenty or thirty billion dollars and, vroom!»
Author: Russell Baker
(Columnist, Journalist)
| Keywords:
agonies, bungler, bunglers, chemicals, magnificent, metal, The Office, undergoing, wire
«MAGNIFICENT, adj. Having a grandeur or splendor superior to that to which the spectator is accustomed, as the ears of an ass, to a rabbit, or the glory of a glowworm, to a maggot.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
accustomed, glowworm, magnificent, spectator
«The City of New York is like an enormous citadel, a modern Carcassonne. Walking between the magnificent skyscrapers one feels the presence on the fringe of a howling, raging mob, a mob with empty bellies, a mob unshaven and in rags.»
Author: Henry Miller
(Author, Writer)
| About:
America and Americans,
Cities
| Keywords:
bellies, Carcassonne, citadel, citadels, City of New York, enormous, fringe, fringed, fringes, howling, magnificent, mob, rag, raging, rags, skyscraper, skyscrapers, The Citadel, The City, unshaven
«The magnificent roaring of the young lions of the Daily Telegraph.»
Author: Matthew Arnold
(Critic, Poet)
| Keywords:
Daily Telegraph, lions, magnificent, roaring, telegraph, The Daily Telegraph, The Telegraph, The Young Lions
«Of the innumerable authors whose performances are thus treasured up in magnificent obscurity (in a library), most are forgotten, because they never deserved to be remembered»
«She is the most beautiful among women; upon her forehead she wears the Jewel of the Lord's Love. Her glory and her wisdom are magnificent; her love for the Infinite Lord is True. Other than her Beloved Lord, she knows no man. She enshrines love for the True Guru.»
«Man has, as it were, become a kind of prosthetic God. When he puts on all his auxiliary organs, he is truly magnificent; but those organs have not grown on him and they still give him much trouble at times.»
Author: Sigmund Freud
(Founder)
| Keywords:
auxiliaries, auxiliary, magnificent, organs, prosthetic, prosthetics
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