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«The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain.»
«The catalogue of miseries seems to cry out for commercial spots and a station break: the stuff of noonday soap opera.»
Author: Stefan Kanfer
| Keywords:
catalogue, catalogued, catalogues, commercial, cry out, cry out for, miseries, noonday, opera, soap, soap opera, soap operas, spots, station
«There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
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affairs, afloat, bound, clouds, current, flood, flood tide, folded, folding, fold up, man of affairs, miseries, omit, omits, omitted, omitting, shallows, The Clouds, The Current, The Flood, tide, voyage
«To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all of the miseries of life.»
Author: William Somerset Maugham
(Novelist, Playwright, Writer)
| Keywords:
acquire, almost all, construct, miseries, refuge
«The origins of disputes between philosophers is, that one class of them have undertaken to raise man by displaying his greatness, and the other to debase him by showing his miseries.»
Author: Blaise Pascal
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist)
| Keywords:
debase, miseries, undertaken
«Three quarters of the miseries and misunderstandings in the world would finish if people were to put on the shoes of their adversaries and understood their points of view»
Author: Mahatma Gandhi
(Philosopher)
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adversaries, finish, finish up, miseries, misunderstandings, points, points of view, put, put on, quarters, shod, shoes, three-quarter, three, understood, view, world view
«The acquisition of riches has been to many not an end to their miseries, but a change in them: The fault is not in the riches, but the disposition.»
«The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.»
Author: Winston Churchill
(Author, Orator, Prime Minister)
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Capitalism,
Socialism
| Keywords:
blessings, capitalism, inherent, miseries, sharing, socialism, unequal, unequal to
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