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«Build up your weaknesses until they become your strong points.»
«Education is a kind of continuing dialogue, and a dialogue assumes different points of view.»
Author: Robert M. Hutchins
(Educator, Writer)
| About:
Education
| Keywords:
assumes, continuing, dialogue, dialogues, points, points of view
«God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons we could not learn in any other way. The way we learn those lessons is not to deny the feelings but to find the meanings underlying them.»
Author: Stanley Lindquist
| About:
God,
Learning,
Life
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«A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself.»
Author: E. M. Forster
(Essayist, Novelist)
| Keywords:
hangs, hang together, poem, points, something else
«Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some»
Author: John Keats
(Poet)
| About:
Experience,
Failure
| Keywords:
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«A route differs from a road not only because it is solely intended for vehicles, but also because it is merely a line that connects one point with another. A route has no meaning in itself; its meaning derives entirely from the two points that it connects. A road is a tribute to space. Every stretch of road has meaning in itself and invites us to stop. A route is the triumphant devaluation of space, which thanks to it has been reduced to a mere obstacle to human movement and a waste of time.»
Author: Milan Kundera
(Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
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«He liked to observe emotions; they were like red lanterns strung along the dark unknown of another's personality, marking vulnerable points.»
«Creating a new theory is not like destroying an old barn and erecting a skyscraper in its place. It is rather like climbing a mountain, gaining new and wider views, discovering unexpected connections between our starting points and its rich environment. But the point from which we started out still exists and can be seen, although it appears smaller and forms a tiny part of our broad view gained by the mastery of the obstacles on our adventurous way up.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| Keywords:
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«A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure.»
«He knows nothing; he thinks he knows everything - that clearly points to a political career»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
career, clearly, points, political, thinks
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