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«People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.»
«The hero is one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up blazing torches in the dark streets of life for men to see by.»
«Ninety-eight percent of American homes have TV sets, which means the people in the other 2% have to generate their own sex and violence.»
Author: Franklin P. Jones
(Businessman)
| About:
America and Americans,
Home
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American, eight, generate, generating, homes, My TV, ninety, Ninety eight, percent, sets, Sex and, tv set, TV sets, violence
«There is something in October sets the gypsy blood astir, We must rise and follow her; When from every hill of flame, She calls and calls each vagabond by name»
«My sun sets to raise again.»
Author: Elizabeth Barrett Browning
| Keywords:
sets
«Self-image sets the boundaries of individual accomplishment»
«Pride attaches undue importance to the superiority of one's status in the eyes of others; And shame is fear of humiliation at one's inferior status in the estimation of others. When one sets his heart on being highly esteemed, and achieves such rating, then he is automatically involved in fear of losing his status.»
Author: Lao Tzu
(Philosopher)
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Pride,
Shame
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achieves, attaches, automatically, esteemed, estimation, estimations, highly, humiliation, humiliations, inferior, involved, losing, rating, ratings, sets, shame, status, superiority, undue
«Of course you will insist on modesty in the children, and respect to their teachers, but if the boy stops you in your speech, cries out that you are wrong and sets you right, hug him!»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
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Boys Will Be Boys, cries, hug, insist, modesty, respect to, sets, The Children
«One might as well try to ride two horses moving in different directions, as to try to maintain in equal force two opposing or contradictory sets of desires.»
Author: Robert Collier
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as to, as well, contradictories, contradictory, desires, directions, equal, force, horses, maintain, moving, moving in, opposes, opposing, ride, sets, well-tried
«Superstition sets the whole world in flames; philosophy quenches them»
Author: Voltaire
(Philosopher, Writer)
| Keywords:
flamed, flames, In Flames, philosophy, quenches, quenching, sets, superstition, whole
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