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«I could sooner reconcile all Europe than two women»
«I have frequently been questioned, especially by women, of how I could reconcile family life with a scientific career. Well, it has not been easy.»
Author: Marie Curie
(Physicist)
| Keywords:
career, especially, family life, frequently, questioned, reconcile, reconciles, reconciling, scientific
«The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we hold of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us.»
Author: Quentin Crisp
(Author)
| About:
Existence,
Goals,
Opinions,
People
| Keywords:
About us, appall, appalled, appalling, appalls, glowing, reconcile, reconciles, reconciling
«You may, if you are an old-fashioned schoolmaster, wish to consider yourself full of universal benevolence and at the same time derive great pleasure from caning boys. In order to reconcile these two desires you have to persuade yourself that caning»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Fashion
| Keywords:
benevolence, caning, derive, fashioned, old fashioned, persuade, reconcile, schoolmaster, schoolmasters
«There is nothing to which men, while they have food and drink, cannot reconcile themselves.»
«There is hardly any personal defect which an agreeable manner might not gradually reconcile one to»
«Nations do not think, they only feel. They get their feelings at second hand through their temperaments, not their brains. A nation can be brought / by force of circumstances, not argument / to reconcile itself to any kind of government or religion that can be devised; in time it will fit itself to the required conditions; later it will prefer them and will fiercely fight for them.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
devised, fiercely, reconcile, second hand, temperaments
«The characteristic of genuine heroism is its persistency. All men have wandering impulses, fits and starts of generosity. But when you have resolved to be great, abide by yourself, and do not weakly try to reconcile yourself with the world. The heroic cannot be the common, nor the common the heroic.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
abide, abide by, by fits and starts, fits, generosity, genuine, heroic, heroism, impulses, persistency, reconcile, resolved, wandering, weakly
«We grow tired of ourselves, much more of other people. Use may in part reconcile us to our own tediousness, but we do not adopt that of others on the same paternal principle. We may be willing to sell a story twice, never to hear one more than once.»
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