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«Adversity breaks the inferior man's will but only bends the superior man's spirit. Outward influence is denied the great man, who accordingly uses words sparingly but retains his central position.»
«If the mind is to emerge unscathed from this relentless struggle with the unforeseen, two qualities are indispensable: first, an intellect that, even in the darkest hour, retains some glimmerings of the inner light which leads to the truth; and second, the courage to follow this light wherever it may lead.»
Author: Karl von Clausewitz
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darkest, emerge, glimmering, glimmerings, Inner Light, relentless, retains, The Inner Light, unforeseen, unscathed
«I bear no grudges. I have a mind that retains nothing.»
Author: Bette Midler
(Actress, Singer)
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bear in mind, grudged, grudges, grudging, retains
«Memory in youth is active and easily impressible; in old age it is comparatively callous to new impressions, but still retains vividly those of earlier years»
Author: Charlotte Bronte
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callous, comparatively, earlier, impressible, impressions, retains, vividly
«In contrast to revenge, which is the natural, automatic reaction to transgression and which, because of the irreversibility of the action process can be expected and even calculated, the act of forgiving can never be predicted; it is the only reaction that acts in an unexpected way and thus retains, though being a reaction, something of the original character of action.»
Author: Hannah Arendt
(Philosopher, Political scientist)
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automatic, calculated, contrast, forgiving, irreversibility, natural action, natural process, predicted, reaction, retains, the Action, transgression
«. . . I would stand,If the night blackened with a coming storm,Beneath some rock, listening to notes that areThe ghostly language of the ancient earth,Or make their dim abode in distant winds.Thence did I drink the visionary power;And deem not profitless those fleeting moodsOf shadowy exultation: not for this,That they are kindred to our purer mindAnd intellectual life; but that the soul,Remembering how she felt, but what she feltRemembering not, retains an obscure senseOf possible sublimity. . . .»
Author: William Wordsworth
(Poet)
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abode, blacken, blackened, blackens, deem, deeming, deems, dim, distant, exultation, fleeting, ghostly, kindred, moods, notes, obscure, profitless, purer, remembering, retains, shadowy, sublimity, thence, The Visionary, visionaries, visionary, wind power
«Just as eating contrary to the inclination is injurious to the health, so study without desire sports the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.»
«If a man has been his mother's undisputed darling he retains throughout life the triumphant feeling, the confidence in success, which not seldom brings actual success along with it.»
Author: Sigmund Freud
(Founder)
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actual, Darling, his mother, retains, throughout, triumphant, undisputed
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