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«I never cared but for one thing, and that is, simply to know that I am right before my Father in Heaven. If I am this moment, this day doing the things God requires of my hands, and precisely where my Father in Heaven wants me to be, I care no more about tomorrow than though it would never come.»
«There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting.»
«I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat»
Author: Rebecca West
(Writer)
| Keywords:
able, call, Call Me, differentiate, differentiated, differentiates, doormat, doormats, express, feminism, feminist, find out, myself, People Express, precisely, sentiments, The Express
«Man has always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much...the wheel, New York, wars and so on...while all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man...for precisely the same reason.»
Author: Douglas Adams
(Writer)
| About:
New York
| Keywords:
achieved, and so, and so on, assumed, believed, conversely, dolphin, dolphins, Good Time, Having, intelligent, muck, mucked, muck about, New Man, New York, precisely, so much, The New York Times, The Water, The wheel, wars, water, wheel, wheeled, York
«Precisely the least, the softest, lightest, a lizard's rustling, a breath, a flash, a moment - a little makes the way of the best happiness.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| Keywords:
flash, lightest, precisely, rustle, rustles, rustling, softest, The Lizard
«One should never know too precisely whom one has married»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| Keywords:
know, married, precisely, should, too
«It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods. If such a board actually exists it operates precisely like the board of a corporation that is losing money.»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| Keywords:
board, boarded, boarding, Board of, corporation, losing, omnipotent, operates, precisely, run by, The Corporation
«In saying that without the power of the state, evil men would rule over the good. It is taken for granted that the good are precisely those who at the present time have power, and the bad the same who are no subjugated.»
Author: Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
(Novelist, Philosopher, Thinker)
| About:
Power
| Keywords:
granted, precisely, present time, subjugate, subjugated, taken for granted, The State
«It is quite true what Philosophy says: that Life must be understood backwards. But that makes one forget the other saying: that it must be lived /forwards. The more one ponders this, the more it comes to mean that life in the temporal existence never becomes quite intelligible, precisely because at no moment can I find complete quiet to take the backward-looking position.»
Author: Soren Kierkegaard
(Philosopher, Theologian)
| Keywords:
backward, backwards, backward and forward, forwards, intelligible, look backward, pondered, pondering, ponders, position, precisely, Quiet Life, temporal
«It is not known precisely where angels dwell -- whether in the air, the void, or the planets. It has not been God's pleasure that we should be informed of their abode.»
Author: Voltaire
(Philosopher, Writer)
| Keywords:
abode, dwell, informed, in the air, planets, precisely, The Planets, The Void, void, voids
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