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«Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy -- the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation.»
Author: Eric Hoffer
(Writer)
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bankruptcy, disappointment, expectation, expend, expended, expending, expends, sort, sort of
«A hundred years from now it will not matter what my bank account was, the sort of house I lived in, or the kind of car I drove...but the world may be different because I was important in the life of a child.»
Author: Forest E. Witcraft
(Scholar, Scout Leader, Teacher)
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Bankers and banks
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«A woman who looks like a girl and thinks like a man is the best sort, the most enjoyable to be and the most pleasurable to have and to hold.»
«Belief is the death of intelligence. As soon as one believes a doctrine of any sort, or assumes certitude, one stops thinking about that aspect of existence.»
«Constant complaint is the poorest sort of pay for all the comforts we enjoy»
«Christianity simply does not make sense until you have faced the sort of facts I have been describing. Christianity tells people to repent and promises them forgiveness. It therefore has nothing (as far as I know) to say to people who do not know they have done anything to repent of and who do not feel that they need forgiveness.»
Author: C.S. Lewis
(Novelist, Scholar)
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As Far, Christianity, describing, faced, facts, Feel the Need, forgiveness, make sense, promises, repent, repenting, repents, sort, sort of, tells, therefore
«As you get older, it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary»
«Even today a crude sort of persecution is all that is required to create an honorable name for any sect, no matter how indifferent in itself.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| Keywords:
crude, cruder, For any, honorable, indifferent, name, no matter, persecution, persecutions, required, sect, sort, sort of
«As the evening sky faded from a salmon color to a sort of flint gray, I thought back to the salmon I caught that morning, and how gray he was, and how I named him Flint.»
«Each of us literally chooses, by his way of attending to things, what sort of universe he shall appear to himself to inhabit»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
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appear, attending, chooses, inhabit, inhabits, literally, sort, sort of
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