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«There are as many answers to that one as there are reasons men hunt, fight, skydive, gamble or take up with redheaded ladies»
Author: Peter Hathaway Capstick
| Keywords:
gamble, hunt, ladies, redheaded, sky-diving, skydive, skydiving, take up
«Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success, that is way great spiritual giants are produced.»
Author: Swami Vivekananda
(Spiritual leader)
| About:
Focus,
Ideas,
Life,
Success
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be full, Body Parts, every other, left brain, Let Me Alone, live on, muscles, muscle into, nerved, nerves, take up, The Brain, The Nerves
«People who use their erudition to write for a learned minority... don't seem to me favored by fortune but rather to be pitied for their continuous self-torture. They add, change, remove, lay aside, take up, rephrase, show to their friends, keep for nine years and are never satisfied. And their futile reward, a word of praise from a handful of people, they win at such a cost -- so many late nights, such loss of sleep, sweetest of all things, and so much sweat and anguish... their health deteriorates, their looks are destroyed, they suffer partial or total blindness, poverty, ill-will, denial of pleasure, premature old age and early death.»
Author: Desiderius Erasmus
(Editor, Humanist, Priest)
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anguish, blindness, continuous, denial, denial of, deteriorates, erudition, favored, futile, handful, ill health, ill will, lay aside, nights, partial, pitied, premature, rephrase, self-torture, sleep late, sweetest, take up, torture
«They know that it is human nature to take up causes whereby a man may oppress his neighbor, no matter how unjustly... Hence they have had no trouble in finding men who would preach the damnability and heresy of the new doctrine from the very pulpit..»
Author: Galileo Galilei
(Astronomer, Mathematician, Philosopher)
| About:
Nature
| Keywords:
heresy, oppress, preach, pulpit, pulpits, take up, unjustly, whereby
«Remember that whatever may be said by a lady or her friends, it is not part of conduct of a gallant or generous man to take up arms against a woman.»
Author: Sam Houston
(General, Lawyer, Politician)
| About:
Men and Women
| Keywords:
Against A, gallant, generous, lady friend, take up, take up arms
«Then the king commanded Ebedmelech the Ethiopian, saying, Take from hence thirty men with thee, and take up Jeremiah the prophet out of the dungeon, before he die.»
«Then said Jesus unto his disciples, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.»
«Then said Jehu to Bidkar his captain, Take up, and cast him in the portion of the field of Naboth the Jezreelite: for remember how that, when I and thou rode together after Ahab his father, the LORD laid this burden upon him; / Surely I have seen yesterday the blood of Naboth, and the blood of his sons, saith the LORD; and I will requite thee in this plat, saith the LORD. Now therefore take and cast him into the plat of ground, according to the word of the LORD.»
«The only reason I would take up jogging is so that I could hear heavy breathing again.»
Author: Erma Bombeck
| About:
Funny,
Sex
| Keywords:
breathing, breathings, heavies, heavy, jog, jogging, take up
«Take up the White Man's burden - / And reap his old reward: / The blame of those ye better, / The hate of those ye guard.»
Author: Rudyard Kipling
| Keywords:
take up
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