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«What is difficulty? Only a word indicating the degree of strength requisite for accomplishing particular objects; a mere notice of the necessity for exertion; a bugbear to children and fools; only a stimulus to men»
Author: Samuel Warren
| About:
Difficulty,
Effort,
Words
| Keywords:
accomplishing, bugbear, bugbears, exertion, indicating, requisite, stimuli, stimulus
«The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion»
«The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his own weight.»
Author: Theodore Roosevelt
(President)
| About:
Citizenship
| Keywords:
citizen, ours, pull, republic, Republic of, requisite, requisites, weight
«When I hear the hypercritical quarreling about grammar and style, the position of the particles, etc., etc., stretching or contracting every speaker to certain rules of theirs. I see that they forget that the first requisite and rule is that expression shall be vital and natural, as much as the voice of a brute or an interjection: first of all, mother tongue; and last of all, artificial or father tongue. Essentially your truest poetic sentence is as free and lawless as a lamb's bleat.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
artificial, bleat, bleating, brute, contracting, etc., etc, first of all, free expression, grammar, hypercritical, interjection, lamb, lawless, mother tongue, particles, poetic, quarreling, requisite, Rules of, speaker, stretching, truest
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