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Letter "R" » rid
«Most of my advances were by mistake. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn't.»
Author: Richard Buckminster Fuller
| Keywords:
Advances, get rid of, rid, rid of, uncover, uncovering, uncovers
«Once a woman has given you her heart, you can never get rid of the rest of her.»
Author: Sir John Vanbrugh
(Playwright)
| About:
Heart,
Men and Women
| Keywords:
get rid of, given, her, rest, rid, ridding, rids, rid of, Rid of Me
«If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
closet, closeted, closets, come out of the closet, dance, get rid of, rid, ridding, rids, rid of, Rid of Me, skeleton, skeletons, Teach, the closet
«It is important not to have the unrealistic expectation that we will find a magic key to help get rid of all suffering. It takes determination, patience, and more than one week.»
Author: Tenzin Gyatso, The 14th Dalai Lama
| Keywords:
expectation, get rid of, rid, rid of, unrealistic
«I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| Keywords:
believe in, fear, getting, grammar, grammars, rid, ridding, rids, rid of, Rid of Me, still
«If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
as well, family, get rid of, rid, rid of, skeleton, skeletons, The Family, well-made
«In literature the ambition of the novice is to acquire the literary language: the struggle of the adept is to get rid of it.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
acquire, adept, ambition, get rid of, literary, literature, novice, novices, rid, rid of, struggle, The Novice
«Often, the less there is to justify a traditional custom, the harder it is to get rid of it.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| About:
justification,
Logic,
Traditions
| Keywords:
custom, get rid of, harder, justify, justifying, less, rid, ridding, rids, rid of, Rid of Me, The Less, to get, traditional
«Normal fear protects us; abnormal fear paralyses us. Normal fear motivates us to improve our individual and collective welfare; abnormal fear constantly poisons and distorts our inner lives. Our problem is not to be rid of fear but, rather to harness and master it.»
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Baptist Minister, Civil-Rights Leader)
| Keywords:
abnormal, collective, constantly, distorting, distorts, harness, harnessed, harnesses, harnessing, improve, inner, master, motivates, motivating, normal, paralyses, paralysis, poisons, protects, rid, rid of, welfare
«It is not enough for us to prostrate ourselves under the tree which is Creation, and to contemplate its tremendous branches filled with stars. We have a duty to perform, to work upon the human soul, to defend the mystery against the miracle, to worship the incomprehensible while rejecting the absurd; to accept, in the inexplicable, only what is necessary; to dispel the superstitions that surround religion --to rid God of His Maggots.»
Author: Victor Hugo
(Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
absurd, branches, contemplate, defend, dispel, dispelling, human soul, incomprehensible, inexplicable, perform, prostrate, prostrated, prostrates, prostrating, Rejecting, rid, superstitions, surround, The Miracle, tree branch, tremendous, worship
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