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Letter "R" » remote
«Magnetism is one of the Six Fundamental Forces of the Universe, with the other five being Gravity, Duct Tape, Whining, Remote Control, and The Force That Pulls Dogs Toward The Groins Of Strangers.»
Author: Dave Barry
(Humorist, Writer)
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Funny
| Keywords:
control, dogs, duct, duct tape, five, force, forces, fundamental, gravity, groin, Groins, pulling out, pulls, pull in, pull over, pull through, pull up, remote, remotest, remote control, six, Strangers, tape, tapes, taping, The Force, The Six, the universe, universe, whines, whining
«In the life of each of us, I said to myself, 'There is a place remote and islanded, and given to endless regret or secret happiness.'»
«Mysteriously and in ways that are totally remote from natural experience, the gray drizzle of horror induced by depression takes on the quality of physical pain.»
Author: William Styron
(Novelist, Writer)
| Keywords:
depression, drizzle, gray, horror, induced, inducing, mysteriously, Physical pain, remote, remotest, totally
«It is not a dreamlike state, but the somehow insulated state, that a great musician achieves in a great performance. He's aware of where he is and what he's doing, but his mind is on the playing of the instrument with an internal sense of rightness / it is not merely mechanical, it is not only spiritual; it is something of both, on a different plane and a more remote one.»
«Sob, heavy world Sob as you spin, Mantled in mist Remote from the happy»
«INTENTION, n. The mind's sense of the prevalence of one set of influences over another set; an effect whose cause is the imminence, immediate or remote, of the performance of an involuntary act.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
imminence, involuntary, prevalence, remote
«Reading those turgid philosophers here in these remote stone buildings may not get you a job, but if those books have forced you to ask yourself questions about what makes life truthful, purposeful, meaningful, and redeeming, you have the Swiss Army Knife of mental tools, and it's going to come in handy all the time.»
Author: Bill Watterson
(Author)
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army, Book of Job, Buildings, come in, come in handy, forced, handier, Handy, knife, philosophers, purposeful, redeeming, remote, remotest, stone, Swiss, the Swiss, tools, truthful, turgid
«Predestination! how remote and dim Thy root lies hidden from the intellect Which only glimpses the First Cause Supreme! And you, ye mortals, keep your judgment checked, Since we, who see God, have not therefore skill To know yet all the number of the»
Author: Dante Alighieri
(Author, Poet)
| Keywords:
checked, dim, first cause, glimpses, mortals, predestination, remote, Root cause
«Perhaps I'm old and tired, but I always think that the chances of finding out what really is going on are so absurdly remote that the only thing to do is to say hang the sense of it and just keep yourself occupied.»
«Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote from truth who believes nothing, than he who believes what is wrong»
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