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«Prejudice is a raft onto which the shipwrecked mind clambers and paddles to safety»
«There are thousands of causes for stress, and one antidote to stress is self-expression. That's what happens to me every day. My thoughts get off my chest, down my sleeves and onto my pad.»
Author: Garson Kanin
(Actor, Film Director, Writer)
| About:
Stress
| Keywords:
antidote, antidotes, chest, get off, my thoughts, onto, pad, padded, pads, self-expression, sleeves
«Sometimes when you think you are done, it is just the edge of beginning. Probably that's why we decide we're done. It's getting too scary. We are touching down onto something real. It is beyond the point when you think you are done that often something strong comes out.»
Author: Natalie Goldberg
| Keywords:
comes out, Edge of, onto, scary, strong point, the edge, touching, touch down
«The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.»
«The most successful businessman is the man who holds onto the old just as long as it is good, and grabs the new just as soon as it is better.»
Author: Lee Iacocca
| About:
Business
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as it is, businessman, good and, grabbed, grabs, holds, just as, most successful, onto, soon, successful, The New
«We have made up a God in our image. Because we are angry and judgmental, we have projected those characteristics onto Him. But God remains who He is and always will be: He is the energy, the thought of unconditional love. He cannot think with anger or judgment. He is mercy and compassion and total acceptance.»
Author: Marianne Williamson
(Author, Lecturer)
| Keywords:
characteristics, judgmental, onto, projected, unconditional
«We only seem to learn from Life that Life doesn't matter so much as it seemed to do--it's not so burningly important, after all, what happens. We crawl, like blinking sea-creatures, out of the Ocean onto a spur of rock, we creep over the promontory b»
Author: D.H. Lawrence
(Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Life
| Keywords:
blinking, onto, promontory, spur
«Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it onto future generations.»
«Politicians / power itself / are abject because they merely embody the profound contempt people have for their own lives. One should be grateful to the politicians for accepting the abstractness of power, and ridding others of its burden. This inevitably kills them but they get their revenge by passing onto others the corpse of power.»
«The guarantee that our self enjoys an intended relation to the outer world is most, if not all, we ask from religion. God is the self projected onto reality by our natural and necessary optimism. He is the not-me personified.»
Author: John Updike
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enjoys, guarantee, intended, onto, optimism, outer, personified, personify, projected, relation, relation to
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