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«The brawny mix of extraordinary sights-weather, politics, races, imagination, corruption and athletics. They clash and mingle here where the broad prairies that are the world's most fertile collection of farm fields meet the vast Great Lakes that are the world's largest collection of fresh water.»
Author: Andrew H. Malcolm
| Keywords:
athletics, brawny, clash, collection, farm, fresh water, Great Lakes, largest, mingle, prairie, prairies, sights
«No matter how tough, no matter what kind of outside pressure, no matter how many bad breaks along the way, I must keep my sights on the final goal, to win, win, win -- and with more love and passion than the world has ever witnessed in any performance.»
Author: Billie Jean King
(Tennis Player)
| Keywords:
performance, pressure, sights, tough, witnessed
«Very few people are ambitious in the sense of having a specific image of what they want to achieve. Most people's sights are only toward the next run, the next increment of money.»
«We may have civilized bodies and yet barbarous souls. We are blind to the real sights of this world; deaf to its voice; and dead to its death. And not till we know, that one grief outweighs ten thousand joys will we become what Christianity is striving to make us.»
«Leadership is not magnetic personality/that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not making friends and influencing people /that is flattery. Leadership is lifting a person's vision to higher sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.»
Author: Peter F. Drucker
(Educator, Writer)
| Keywords:
as well, building, flatteries, flattery, glib, higher, influencing, just as, lifting, limitations, magnetic, normal, performance, personality, raising, sights, standard, The Building, tongue, vision
«I was asked about setting my sights on a sixth World Cup with Brazil - but now I want to enjoy the fifth.»
«Then said he unto them, Nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: / And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.»
Author: Bible
| Keywords:
diver, divers, earthquakes, famines, fearful, Great Famine, kingdom, sights, signs
«There are few more impressive sights in the world than a Scotsman on the make»
Author: James Matthew Barrie
(Dramatist, Novelist)
| About:
World
| Keywords:
impressive, Scotsman, Scotsmen, sights
«No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see the possibilites-always see them- for they are always there.»
Author: Norman Vincent Peale
(Clergyman, Writer)
| Keywords:
dark matter, raise, sights, sight seeing
«Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds,Exhilarate the spirit, and restoreThe tone of languid nature.»
Author: William Cowper
(Poet)
| Keywords:
exhilarate, languid, restore, rural, sights, Sight and Sound, tone
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