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«Driving round a bend and skidding on a mat of dead toads is very unpleasant for all concerned.»
Author: Amanda Hillier
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bend, concerned, driving, round, skid, skidding, skids, toads, unpleasant
«Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.»
Author: Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
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Action,
Fantasy
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dress, dress rehearsal, fantasies, fantasy world, performed, rehearsals, unpleasant
«Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.»
«Does feminist mean large unpleasant person who'll shout at you or someone who believes women are human beings. To me it's the latter, so I sign up.»
Author: Margaret Atwood
(Writer)
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believes, feminist, human beings, latter, shout, shout out, sign up, So I, unpleasant, unpleasant person
«Do it now! can affect every phase of your life. It can help you do the things you should do but don't feel like doing. It can keep you from procrastinating when an unpleasant duty faces you. But it can also help you do those things that you want to do. It helps you seize those precious moments that, if lost, may never be retrieved.»
Author: Napoleon Hill
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affect, duty, faces, feel like, helps, moments, phase, phased, phases, precious, procrastinate, procrastinated, procrastinating, retrieve, Retrieving, seize, unpleasant
«Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.»
Author: Quentin Crisp
(Author)
| About:
Euphemisms
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cologne, diplomatic, euphemism, euphemisms, unpleasant
«A keen sense of humor helps us to overlook the unbecoming, understand the unconventional, tolerated the unpleasant, overcome the unexpected, and outlast the unbearable»
Author: Billy Graham
| About:
Sense of humor
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keen, keenest, outlast, outlasted, outlasting, outlasts, overlook, sense of humor, tolerated, unbearable, unbecoming, unconventional, unexpected, unpleasant
«Everyone wants happiness; nobody wants to suffer. Many problems around us are a mental projection of certain negative or unpleasant things. If we analyze our own mental attitude, we may find it quite unbearable. Therefore, a well-balanced mind is very useful and we should try and have a stable mental state.»
Author: Dalai Lama
| Keywords:
analyze, balanced, negative, projection, projections, stable, unbearable, unpleasant, well-balanced
«But what is the good of friendship if one cannot say exactly what one means? Anybody can say charming things and try to please and to flatter, but a true friend always says unpleasant things, and does not mind giving pain. Indeed, if he is a really true friend he prefers it, for he knows that then he is doing good.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Friendship
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charmed, charming, exactly, flatter, flat out, Friend, friendship, give it a try, giving, going, indeed, knows, means, of one mind, pain, please, preferring, prefers, really, say, says, tried and true, try, unpleasant
«Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost»
Author: Voltaire
(Philosopher, Writer)
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advantages, animals, ceremonies, clock, cost, disturbed, funerals, instruct, instructing, instructs, moments, strike, theologian, theologians, The Clocks, unpleasant, unwelcome
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