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«Each Warrior wants to leave the mark of his will, his signature, on important acts he touches. This is not the voice of ego but of the human spirit, rising up and declaring that it has something to contribute to the solution of the hardest problems, no matter how vexing!»
Author: Pat Riley
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«Manners are of more importance than laws... Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe in.»
Author: Edmund Burke
(Philosopher, Statesman)
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Manners
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«I'll walk where my own nature would be leading: It vexes me to choose another guide.»
«It vexes me when they would constrain science by the authority of the Scriptures, and yet do not consider themselves bound to answer reason and experiment.»
Author: Galileo Galilei
(Astronomer, Mathematician, Philosopher)
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constrain, constraining, constrains, experiment, scriptures, The Authority, vexes, vexing
«But human bodies are sic fools, For a' their colleges and schools, That when nae real ills perplex them, They make enow themsel's to vex them»
«I will also vex the hearts of many people, when I shall bring thy destruction among the nations, into the countries which thou hast not known.»
«A refined nature is vexed by knowing that some one owes it thanks, a coarse nature by knowing that it owes thanks to some one»
«I said it in Hebrew - I said it in Dutch - / I said it in German and Greek; / But I wholly forgot (and it vexes me much) / That English is what you speak!»
Author: Lewis Carroll
(Logician, Mathematician, Novelist, Photographer)
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Dutch, forgot, German, Greek, Hebrew, the Dutch, vexes, vexing, wholly
«Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged a fire sparkling in lovers eyes, being vexed a sea nourished with lovers tears, What is it else? A madness most discreet, A choking gall and a perserving sweet.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Love
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«Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Life
| Keywords:
drowsy, tale, tedious, vexes, vexing
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