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«Don't undertake a project unless it is manifestly important and nearly impossible»
«[Travel seems] not just a way of having a good time, but something that every self-respecting citizen ought to undertake, like a high-fiber diet, say, or a deodorant.»
Author: Jan Morris
| About:
Travel
| Keywords:
Better To Travel, citizen, deodorant, diet, dieting, diets, fiber, fibers, Good Time, high time, respecting, self-respecting, undertake, undertook
«Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.»
Author: Charles de Montesquieu
(Philosopher, Politician)
| About:
Friendship
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arrangement, exchange, favors, The Arrangement, undertake
«By speaking, by thinking, we undertake to clarify things, and that forces us to exacerbate them, dislocate them, schematize them. Every concept is in itself an exaggeration.»
Author: Jose Ortega y Gasset
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clarified, clarifies, clarify, clarifying, concept, dislocate, exacerbate, exacerbated, exaggeration, exaggerations, forces, schematize, speaking, undertake, undertook
«Great men undertake great things because they are great; fools, because they think them easy»
Author: Vauvenargues, Marquis de
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undertake
«A wedding is a ceremony at which two persons undertake to become one, one undertakes to become nothing, and nothing undertakes to become supportable.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| About:
Marriage,
Wedding
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supportable, undertake, undertakes, wedding ceremony
«All writers are vain, selfish and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives lies a mystery. Writing a book is a long, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.»
«I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents.»
Author: James Madison
(President)
| About:
Benevolence,
Charity,
Government,
Taxation
| Keywords:
article, benevolence, Congress of, constituent, constituents, expend, expended, expending, expends, finger, on that, undertake
«He who is not sure of his memory should not undertake the trade of lying»
«Do not consider any act of service as demeaning. Sweeping the streets, for example, is not below your dignity. Do you not sweep the floor of your homes? Do you not scrub and wash off dirt? When you undertake such tasks, the villagers will also gladly share in them. Why feel ashamed to be good? The ridicule that may be cast on you has been the reward of many saints. It will soon fade away. Muhammad was driven out of Mecca by those who could not appreciate his teachings. Jesus was crucified. But their names resound in the heart of millions.»
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