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« I have never been a serious person.... I am not serious at all because existence is not serious. It is so playful, so full of song and so full of music and so full of subtle laughter. It has no purpose; it is not business-like. It is pure joy, sheer dance, out of overflowing energy. »
Author: Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
(Spiritual leader)
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«Only after many trials for strength,Only when all stimulants fail,Does the aspiring soulBy its own sheer powerFind the divineBy resting upon itself.»
«I fell asleep reading a dull book and dreamed I kept on reading, so I awoke from sheer boredom.»
«Our consciences are littered like an old attic with the junk of sheer conviction.»
Author: Wilford O. Cross
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Conscience,
Conviction
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«I have often thought that if photography were difficult in the true sense of the term -- meaning that the creation of a simple photograph would entail as much time and effort as the production of a good watercolor or etching -- there would be a vast improvement in total output. The sheer ease with which we can produce a superficial image often leads to creative disaster.»
Author: Ansel Adams
(Photographer)
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«I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable.»
Author: Joseph Addison
(Dramatist, Essayist, Poet, Statesman)
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«It was sheer professionalism and inspiration and the fact that you really cannot have people marching into other people's territory and staying there.»
Author: Margaret Thatcher
(Politician, Prime Minister)
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marching, professionalism, sheer, staying, territory
«I am well aware that an addiction to silk underwear does not necessarily imply that one's feet are dirty. None the less, style, like sheer silk, too often hides eczema.»
Author: Albert Camus
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
addiction, eczema, hides, imply, sheer, silk, underwear, well aware
«In every revolution there intrude, at the side of its true agents, men of a different stamp; some of them survivors of and devotees to past revolutions, without insight into the present movement, but preserving popular influence by their known honesty and courage, or by the sheer force of tradition; others mere brawlers, who, by dint of repeating year after year the same set of stereotyped declamations against the government of the day, have sneaked into the reputation of revolutionists of the first water They are an unavoidable evil: with time they are shaken off.»
Author: Karl Marx
(Philosopher)
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«If one loses wealth, he may regain it by some means or other. If he loses health, some doctor might prescribe a tonic to win it back. If one loses status and authority he may, by sheer luck, gain them back. If Virtue is lost, it is lost forever; nothing can restore the pristine purity. So one has to be ever vigilant and should never slacken.»
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