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Letter "U" » unfortunate
«That most unfortunate war, which I deeply deplore.»
«Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that is comes early.»
«I need someone physically stronger than me.... I am always on top. It's really unfortunate. I am begging for the man that can put me on the bottom. Or the woman. Anybody that can take me down.»
Author: Angelina Jolie
(Actress)
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Men and Women
| Keywords:
begged, begging, Beg to, bottom, bottomed, Bottom Up, physically, stronger, Take Me, The Bottom, top, top down, unfortunate, unfortunates
«Next to reasoning, the greatest handicap to the optimum development of Man lies in the fact that this planet is just barely habitable. Its minimum temperatures are too low, and its maximum temperatures too high. Its day is not long enough, and its night is too long. The disposition of its water and earth is distinctly unfortunate (the existence of the Mediterranean Sea in the place where we find it is perhaps the unhappiest accident in the whole firmament). These factors encourage depression, fear, war, and lack of vitality. They describe a planet, which is by no means perfectly devised for the nurturing or for the perpetuation of a higher intelligence.»
Author: James Thurber
(Writer)
| Keywords:
barely, by no means, devised, disposition, distinctly, firmament, Great Depression, habitable, high sea, high temperature, high water, maximum, minimum, not long, nurturing, optimum, perpetuation, planet Earth, temperatures, the Great Depression, unfortunate, unhappiest, vitality
«I have an unfortunate personality.»
Author: Orson Welles
| Keywords:
unfortunate
«I think it's unfortunate to have critics for friends.»
«Men rush to California and Australia as if the true gold were to be found in that direction; but that is to go to the very opposite extreme to where it lies. They go prospecting farther and farther away from the true lead, and are most unfortunate when they think themselves most successful.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
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Australia, California, extreme, farther, gold rush, most successful, prospecting, rush, unfortunate
«Justice should remove the bandage from her eyes long enough to distinguish between the vicious and the unfortunate.»
Author: Robert Green Ingersoll
(Orator, Statesman)
| Keywords:
And Justice For All, bandage, bandaged, bandages, distinguish, do justice, justice, justices, remove, unfortunate, unfortunates, vicious
«Like many other unfortunate young people, Harvey had never in all his life received a direct order - never, at least, without long, and sometimes tearful, explanations of the advantages of obedience and the reasons for the request.»
«The vicious hunters, the faithless cynics, are hunted down by the Messenger of Death. They have not sold their heads to the True Guru; those wretched, unfortunate ones continue coming and going in reincarnation.»
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