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«If you have anything really valuable to contribute to the world it will come through the expression of your own personality, that single spark of divinity that sets you off and makes you different from every other living creature.»
Author: Bruce Barton
(Congressman)
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come through, contribute, divinities, divinity, every other, of your own, sets, set off, spark
«Man can will nothing unless he has first understood that he must count on no one but himself; that he is alone, abandoned on earth in the midst of his infinite responsibilities, without help, with no other aim than the one he sets himself, with no other destiny than the one he forges for himself on this earth.»
Author: Jean-Paul Sartre
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abandoned, count, count on, destiny, forges, forging, infinite, in the midst, midst, responsibilities, sets, understood, without aim
«Heredity is what sets the parents of a teenager wondering about each other.»
«Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it.»
«I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinions of himself than on the opinions of others»
«In the beautiful, man sets himself up as the standard of perfection; in select cases he worships himself in it. Man believes that the world itself is filled with beauty /he forgets that it is he who has created it. He alone has bestowed beauty upon the world /alas! only a very human, an all too human, beauty.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
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alas, all too, believes, bestowed, bestowing, cases, filled, forgets, perfection, select, Selecting, selects, sets, standard, The Standard, worships
«If one considers how much reason every person has for anxiety and timid self-concealment, and how three-quarters of his energy and goodwill can be paralyzed and made unfruitful by it, one has to be very grateful to fashion, insofar as it sets that th»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
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Reason
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anxiety, concealment, considers, every quarter, fashion, goodwill, grateful, insofar, paralyzed, paralyzes, paralyzing, quarters, sets, three-quarter, timid, unfruitful
«Mankind always sets itself only such tasks as it can solve; since, looking at the matter more closely, we will always find that the task itself arises only when the material conditions necessary for its solution already exist or are at least in the process of formation.»
Author: Karl Marx
(Philosopher)
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arises, closely, formation, formations, sets, solution, tasks, the matter, The Process, The Task
«Money alone sets all the world in motion»
«It provokes the desire but it takes away the performance. Therefore much drink may be said to be an equivocator with lechery: it makes him and it mars him; it sets him on and it takes him off.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
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equivocator, lechery, Mars, performance, provokes, sets, set off
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