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«The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experiences.»
Author: Eleanor Roosevelt
(Diplomat, First Lady, Humanitarian)
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after all, eagerly, experiences, newer, reach out, richer, taste, utmost, without fear
«The struggle of literature is in fact a struggle to escape from the confines of language; it stretches out from the utmost limits of what can be said; what stirs literature is the call and attraction of what is not in the dictionary.»
Author: Italo Calvino
(Essayist, Journalist, Writer)
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attraction, confines, dictionary, escape from, stirs, stretches, The Call, utmost
«The mere apprehension of a coming evil has put many into a situation of the utmost danger»
«No matter what you do, do it to your utmost. I always attribute my success to always requiring myself to do my level best, if only in driving a tack in straight.»
«The subjective mind is entirely under the control of the objective mind. With the utmost fidelity it reproduces and works out to its final consequences whatever the objective mind impresses upon it.»
Author: Thomas Troward
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consequences, fidelities, fidelity, impresses, objective, reproduced, reproduces, reproducing, subjective, utmost
«The prevalence of suicide, without doubt, is a test of height in civilization; it means that the population is winding up its nervous and intellectual system to the utmost point of tension and that sometimes it snaps.»
Author: Havelock Ellis
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height, nervous, population, prevalence, snapped, snapping, snaps, snap at, tension, utmost, winding, windings
«Our imagination is stretched to the utmost, not, as in fiction, to imagine things which are not really there, but just to comprehend those things which 'are' there.»
«The open mind never acts: when we have done our utmost to arrive at a reasonable conclusion, we still - must close our minds for the moment with a snap, and act dogmatically on our conclusions»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
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Mind
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arrive, arrive at, conclusion, conclusions, dogmatically, for the moment, open-minded, Open Mind, reasonable, snap, snapped, snapping, snaps, snap at, utmost
«The most tranquil house, with the most serene inhabitants, living upon the utmost regularity of system, is yet exemplifying infinite diversities»
Author: Henry Ward Beecher
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diversities, exemplified, exemplify, exemplifying, Inhabitants, regularities, regularity, serene, tranquil, utmost
«The necessity of the times, more than ever, calls for our utmost circumspection, deliberation, fortitude, and perseverance.»
Author: Samuel Butler
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circumspection, deliberation, deliberations, fortitude, The Times, utmost
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