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«They are not long, the weeping and the laughter, / Love and desire and hate: / I think they have no portion in us after / We pass the gate.»
«Literacy is not, as it is considered in our schools, a PORTION of education. It IS education. It is at once the ability AND the inclination of the mind to find knowledge, to pursue understanding, and out of knowledge and understanding, not out of received attitudes and values or emotional responses, however worthy, to make judgments.»
Author: Richard Mitchell
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at once, considered, emotional, inclination, judgments, literacy, portion, pursue, received, responses, schools, values, value judgment, worthy
«The best portion of a good man's life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love»
Author: William Wordsworth
(Poet)
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Kindness
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Acts, Acts of Love, nameless, portion
«No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration»
Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero
(Lawyer, Orator, Scholar, Statesman, Writer)
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Divine, inspiration, portion, portion out
«Socrates thought that if all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap, whence every one must take an equal portion, most persons would be contented to take their own and depart»
Author: Plutarch
(Author, Biographer)
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contented, depart, heap, misfortunes, portion, Socrates, whence
«Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise.»
Author: Victor Hugo
(Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
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Love
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atmosphere, breathing, breathings, celestial, paradise, paradises, portion, portion out
«Man has no Body distinct from his Soul; for that called Body is a portion of Soul discerned by the five Senses, the chief inlets of Soul in this age.»
«I observe that a very large portion of the human race does not believe in God and suffers no visible punishment in consequence. And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that he would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Belief,
God,
Mankind,
Vanity
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consequence, offended, portion, suffers, uneasy, visible
«Judges ought to be more leaned than witty, more reverent than plausible, and more advised than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue.»
«President Bush, testing the mic at the GOP convention:'Four score and seven years ago. We have come here to dedicate a portion of it as a final resting place. ... My fellow members of the press corps, especially the camera man, tax relief is on the way ... don't spend it all in one place.'»
Author: George W. Bush
(President)
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Funny
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All in one, bush, camera, convention, corps, dedicate, GOP, members, on the way, portion, President Bush, press corps, relief, resting, score, Seven Years, testing, the Convention, the conventions, the press
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