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«Most people have come to prefer certain of life?s experiences and deny and reject others, unaware of the value of the hidden things that may come wrapped in plain and even ugly paper. In avoiding all pain and seeking comfort at all costs, we may be left without intimacy or compassion; in rejecting change and risk we often cheat ourselves of the quest; in denying our suffering we may never know our strength or our greatness.»
Author: Rachel Naomi Remen
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«More people are troubled by what is plain in Scripture than by what is obscure.»
«If you cry 'forward', you must without fail make plain in what direction to go.»
Author: Anton Chekhov
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plain
«Look round and round upon this bare bleak plain, and see even here, upon a winter's day, how beautiful the shadows are! Alas! it is the nature of their kind to be so. The loveliest things in life, Tom, are but shadows; and they come and go, and change and fade away, as rapidly as these!»
Author: Charles Dickens
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alas, bare, bleak, bleakest, Come and Go, fade, fade away, fading away, loveliest, plain, rapidly, round, shadows, The Shadows, tom, winter
«It's good to be just plain happy, it's a little better to know that you're happy; but to understand that you're happy and to know why and how and still be happy, be happy in the being and the knowing, well that is beyond happiness, that is bliss.»
«It's fear of the unknown. The unknown is what it is. And to be frightened of it is what sends everybody scurrying around chasing dreams, illusions, wars, peace, love, hate, all that--it's all illusion. Unknown is what it is. Accept that it's unknown and it's plain sailing. Everything is unknown--then you're ahead of the game. That's what it is. Right?»
Author: John Lennon
(Political activist, Singer, Songwriter)
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ahead of the game, chasing, frightened, illusions, In Love and War, peace-loving, plain, plain sailing, sailing, scurry, scurrying, sends, unknown, wars
«It is your work to clear away the mass of encumbering material of thoughts, so that you may bring into plain view the precious thing at the center of the mass.»
Author: Robert Collier
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center, centers, center on, clear, clear away, encumber, encumbered, encumbering, encumbers, Mass, massed, material, plain, plainer, plainest, precious, The Center, view
«If you don't scale the mountain, you can't view the plain»
Author: Chinese Proverbs
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mountain, plain, plainer, plainest, scale, scaled, scaling, the Mountain, view
«Most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise.»
Author: Maya Angelou
(Poet)
| About:
Opportunity
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Girls, otherwise, plain, scarcities, scarcity, virtuous
«I pray thee, understand a plain man in his plain meaning.»
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