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«I like the evening in India, the one magic moment when the sun balances on the rim of the world, and the hush descends, and ten thousand civil servants drift homeward on a river of bicycles, brooding on the Lord Krishna and the cost of living»
Author: James Cameron
(Film Director, Producer, Screenwriter)
| About:
Magic
| Keywords:
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«Man is more disposed to domination than freedom; and a structure of dominion not only gladdens the eye of the master who rears and protects it, but even its servants are uplifted by the thought that they are members of a whole, which rises high above the life and strength of single generations.»
Author: Karl Wilhelm von Humboldt
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«Habit is either the best of servants or the worst of masters»
«Good to the poor, to kindred dear, / To servants kind, to friendship clear, / To nothing but herself severe.»
«It is with our passions as it is with fire and water, they are good servants, but bad masters»
«If they are ignorant, they are despised, if learned, mocked. In love they are reduced to the status of courtesans. As wives they are treated more as servants than as companions. Men do not love them: they make use of them, they exploit them, and expect, in that way, to make them subject to the law of fidelity.»
Author: George Sand
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«He who would be useful, strong, and happy must cease to be a passive receptacle for the negative, beggarly, and impure streams of thought; and as a wise householder commands his servants and invites his guests, so must he learn to command his desires and to say, with authority, what thoughts he shall admit into the mansion of his soul.»
Author: James Allen
(Statesman)
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beggarly, commands, guests, householder, impure, invites, mansion, passive, receptacle, receptacles, servants, streams, The Mansion, The Negative, with authority
«In that way imagination and intelligence enter into our existence in the part of servants of the primary instincts»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| About:
Imagination,
Intelligence
| Keywords:
enter, instincts, primary, servants
«He who loses his money is forsaken by his friends, his wife, his servants and his relations; yet when he regains his riches those who have forsaken him come back to him. Hence wealth is certainly the best of relations.»
Author: Chanakya
(Politician, strategist, Writer)
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forsakes, loses, regained, regains, servants
«Government has laid its hand on health, housing, farming, industry, commerce, education, and to an ever-increasing degree interferes with the people's right to know. Government tends to grow, government programs take on weight and momentum as public servants say, always with the best of intentions. But the truth is that outside of its legitimate function, government does nothing as well or economically as the private sector of the economy.»
Author: Ronald Reagan
(President)
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