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«Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; While others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before.»
«I believe in a long, prolonged, derangement of the senses in order to obtain the unknown.»
Author: Jim Morrison
(Poet, Singer)
| Keywords:
derangement, obtain, prolonged, prolonging, prolongs, senses, unknown
«It is difficult to obtain the friendship of a cat. It is a philosophical animal...one that does not place its affections thoughtlessly.»
Author: Theophile Gautier
| About:
Animals
| Keywords:
affections, animal, obtain, philosophical, thoughtlessly
«Property is unstable, and youth perishes in a moment. Life itself is held in the grinning fangs of Death, Yet men delay to obtain release from the world. Alas, the conduct of mankind is surprising.»
Author: Titus Maccius Plautus
| About:
Death and dying,
Life,
Mankind,
Youth
| Keywords:
alas, delay, fang, fangs, grinning, in a moment, obtain, perishes, release, surprising, The Conduct of Life, unstable
«Peace, above all things, is to be desired, but blood must sometimes be spilled to obtain it on equable and lasting terms»
«Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.»
«It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.»
«It seems to be the fate of idealists to obtain what they have struggled for in a form that destroys their ideals»
«Leisure is time for doing something useful; this leisure the diligent man will obtain, but the lazy man never»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
| About:
Leisure
| Keywords:
diligent, leisure, leisure time, obtain
«LOGIC, n. The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding. The basic of logic is the syllogism, consisting of a major and a minor premise and a conclusion --thus:_Major Premise_: Sixty men can do a piece of work sixty times as quickly as one man._Minor Premise_: One man can dig a posthole in sixty seconds; therefore --_Conclusion_: Sixty men can dig a posthole in one second. This may be called the syllogism arithmetical, in which, by combining logic and mathematics, we obtain a double certainty and are twice blessed.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
accordance, arithmetical, certainty, combining, conclusion, consisting, dig, double, limitations, major, minor, minor premise, misunderstanding, obtain, piece of work, posthole, premise, premised, reasoning, seconds, sixty, strict, syllogism, syllogisms, The Art of Reasoning
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