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«Men are the enemies of women. Promising sublime intimacy, unequalled passion, amazing security and grace, they nevertheless exploit and injure in a myriad subtle ways. Without men the world would be a better place: softer, kinder, more loving; calmer, quieter, more humane.»
Author: Ann Oakley
(Sociologist)
| Keywords:
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«Courage is not limited to the battlefield or the Indianapolis 500 or bravely catching a thief in your house. The real tests of courage are much quieter. They are the inner tests, like remaining faithful when nobody's looking, like enduring pain when the room is empty, like standing alone when you're misunderstood.»
Author: Charles Swindoll
| About:
Courage
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«A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Happiness,
Life
| Keywords:
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«Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.»
Author: Ann Landers
(Advice columnist)
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«In his quieter moments he sounds like his trousers are on fire»
«If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer.»
«I lived in solitude in the country and noticed how the monotony of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| About:
Solitude
| Keywords:
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«If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
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«Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
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«I have seen slower people than I am and more deliberate... and even quieter, and more listless, and lazier people than I am. But they were dead.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
deliberate, deliberates, Deliberating, lazier, laziest, listless, quieter, slower, Too lazy
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