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«The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mood of happiness, but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed by the change, for happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow up»
Author: Charles Morgan
| About:
Change,
Happiness,
Living
| Keywords:
allowed, allowing, Art of Living, clinging, consist, disappointed, grow up, mood, particular, preserving
«The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.»
Author: Iris Murdoch
(Novelist, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
absolute, human body, indifference, major, mysteries, particular, substitutes, The Absolute, yearning, yearnings
«The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them.»
Author: Karl Marx
(Philosopher)
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allowed, class, oppressed, oppresses, oppressing, particular, represent, representatives, repress, repressing
«There is a particular kind of pain, elation, loneliness, and terror involved in this kind of madness. When you're high it's tremendous. The ideas and feelings are fast and frequent like shooting stars...But, somewhere, this changes. The fast ideas are far too faast, and there are far too many; overwhelming confusion replaces clarity. Everything previously moving with the grain is now against-you are irritable, angry, frightened, uncontrollable...It will never end, for madness carves its own reality.»
Author: Kay Jamison
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«One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus; we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular.»
Author: Anthony Robbins
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«Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.»
Author: Aristotle
(Philosopher, Physician, Scientist)
| About:
Poetry
| Keywords:
expresses, finer, history, particular, Particulars, philosophical, poetry, universal, Universals
«PROPERTY, n. Any material thing, having no particular value, that may be held by A against the cupidity of B. Whatever gratifies the passion for possession in one and disappoints it in all others. The object of man's brief rapacity and long indifference.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
brief, cupidity, disappoints, gratifies, held, indifference, material, particular, possession, property, rapacity, The Object of, The Passion
«There is a particular disdain with which Siamese cats regard you. Anyone who has walked in on the Queen cleaning her teeth will be familiar with the feeling.»
Author: Douglas Adams
(Writer)
| Keywords:
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«The great secret, Eliza, is not having bad manners or good manners or any other particular sort of manners, but having the same manner for all human souls: in short, behaving as if you were in Heaven, where there are no third-class carriages, and one soul is as good as another.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
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And One, as good as, bad manners, behaving, carriages, class, for all, good manners, in short, manner, manners, No Secrets, particular, sort, sort of, third, third class
«Point me out the way / To any one particular beauteous star.»
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