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«If we study the lives of great men and women carefully and unemotionally we find that, invariably, greatness was developed, tested and revealed through the darker periods of their lives. One of the largest tributaries of the RIVER OF GREATNESS is always the STREAM OF ADVERSITY.»
Author: Cavett Robert
| Keywords:
carefully, darker, developed, greatness, Great River, invariably, largest, one of the largest, periods, revealed, river, stream, tested, The River, tributaries, tributary, unemotionally
«Reduce the number of lawyers. They are like beavers - they get in the middle of the stream and dam it up.»
«It is a peculiar part of the good photographer's adventure to know where luck is most likely to lie in the stream, to hook it, and to bring it in without unfair play and without too much subduing it.»
Author: James Agee
(Critic, Writer)
| About:
Luck,
Photography
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hook, lie in, peculiar, photographer, stream, subduing, unfair
«Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream.»
«No stream rises higher than its source. What ever man might build could never express or reflect more than he was. He could record neither more nor less than he had learned of life when the buildings were built.»
«Luck affects everything; let your hook always be cast; in the stream where you least expect it, there will be a fish»
«I never held a council of war in my life. I heard what men had to say - the stream of talk at headquarters - but I made up my own mind, and from my written orders my staff got their first knowledge of what was to be done. No living man knew of plans»
Author: Ulysses S. Grant
(President)
| Keywords:
council, council of, headquarters, orders, staff, staffed, staffs, staff of life, stream
«Never swap horses crossing a stream»
«In eternity there is indeed something true and sublime. But all these times and places and occasions are now and here. God himself culminates in the present moment and will never be more divine in the lapse of the ages. Time is but a stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it, but when I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. Its thin current slides away but eternity remains.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
bottom fish, culminate, culminated, culminates, culminating, detect, detects, fishing, lapse, lapsed, lapses, lapsing, occasions, sandy, shallow, slides, stream, sublime, thin
«No, no, we are not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream.»
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Baptist Minister, Civil-Rights Leader)
| Keywords:
And Justice For All, do justice, justice, justices, mighty, righteousness, rolls, roll down, roll over, roll up, satisfied, stream, streaming, waters, water down
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