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«In reality, everyone is good in bed. Close eyes. Shutdown brain. Pause as necessary. Restart brain. Open eyes. What's there to not be good at? Bed is the one place where laziness is rewarded.»
Author: John Dobbin
| About:
Bed,
Sex
| Keywords:
in reality, laziness, open-eyed, pause, restart, rewarded, shutdown
«I never thought that you should be rewarded for the greatest privilege of life.»
Author: May Roper Coker
| Keywords:
rewarded
«In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.»
Author: Christian Nevell Bovee
| About:
Politics
| Keywords:
fired, merit, position, possessor, possessors, raised, rewarded, target
«A courage which looks easy and yet is rare; the courage of a teacher repeating day after day the same lessons - the least rewarded of all forms of courage»
Author: Honore de Balzac
(Novelist)
| About:
Courage,
Teachers and teaching
| Keywords:
day after day, repeating, rewarded
«And he said to David, Thou art more righteous than I: for thou hast rewarded me good, whereas I have rewarded thee evil.»
«He hath not dealt with us after our sins; nor rewarded us according to our iniquities.»
«In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| About:
Business,
Civilization,
Intelligence
| Keywords:
exemption, honored, rewarded
«BRAIN, n. An apparatus with which we think what we think. That which distinguishes the man who is content to _be_ something from the man who wishes to _do_ something. A man of great wealth, or one who has been pitchforked into high station, has commonly such a headful of brain that his neighbors cannot keep their hats on. In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, brain is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
distinguishes, exemption, headful, honored, rewarded
«Having been a little chastised, they shall be greatly rewarded.»
«A generous prayer is never presented in vain; the petition may be refused, but the petitioner is always, I believe, rewarded by some gracious visitation.»
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
(Author, Essayist, Poet)
| Keywords:
generous, gracious, in vain, petition, petitioner, petitions, presented, refused, rewarded, The petition, visitation
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