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«I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape - the loneliness of it, the dead feeling of winter. Something waits beneath it, the whole story doesn't show.»
Author: Andrew Wyeth
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«I should have no use for a paradise in which I should be deprived of the right to prefer hell.»
Author: Jean Rostand
(Biologist, Historian)
| Keywords:
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«Naturally we would prefer seven epiphanies a day and an earth not so apparently devoid of angels.»
Author: Jim Harrison
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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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«Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion . . . . I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.»
Author: Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
(Writer)
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Laughter,
Tears
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afterward, cleaning, exhaustion, frustration, frustrations, prefer, responses
«I prefer you to make mistakes in kindness than work miracles in unkindness.»
Author: Mother Teresa of Calcutta
(Founder, Missionary)
| About:
Miracles
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kindness, Miracles, mistakes, prefer, preferring, unkindness
«Liberals, it has been said, are generous with other peoples' money, except when it comes to questions of national survival when they prefer to be generous with other people's freedom and security.»
«Not infrequently, one encounters copies of important people; and, as with paintings, most people prefer the copy to the original.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| Keywords:
copies, copy, encounters, infrequently, original, paintings, prefer
«My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's»
«Men appear to prefer to ruin one another's fortunes, and to cut each other's throats over a few miserable villages, than to extend the means of human happiness»
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