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Letter "W" » wide-awake
«One very important ingredient of success is a good, wide-awake, persistent, tireless enemy.»
«Modern man likes to pretend that his thinking is wide-awake. But this wide-awake thinking has led us into the mazes of a nightmare in which the torture chambers are endlessly repeated in the mirrors of reason.»
Author: Octavio Paz
| Keywords:
Chambers, endlessly, mazes, mirrors, modern man, nightmare, repeated, The Maze, torture, wide-awake
«It takes a person who is wide awake to make his dream come true.»
Author: Roger Babson
(Author, Business Forecaster)
| About:
Dreams
| Keywords:
awake, wide-awake, wide, widest
«?When a man has fulfilled all four of these requisites?to be wide awake, to have fear, respect, and absolute assurance?there are no mistakes for which he will have to account; under such conditions his actions lose the blundering quality of the acts of a fool. If such a man fails, or suffers a defeat, he will have lost only a battle, and there will be no pitiful regrets over that.?»
Author: Carlos Castaneda
(Author, Writer)
| Keywords:
all four, assurance, assurances, blundering, fulfilled, pitiful, regrets, requisites, suffers, wide-awake
«Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.»
Author: Dr. Carl Sagan
(Astronomer, Scientist, Writer)
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awake, basic, citizenry, deserves, species, wide-awake, wide
«Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe.»
«Success is somebody else's failure. Success is the American Dream we can keep dreaming because most people in most places, including thirty million of ourselves, live wide awake in the terrible reality of poverty.»
Author: Ursula K. LeGuin
(Writer)
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American, American Dream, dreaming, including, million, places, poverty, Somebody else, terrible, The American, thirties, thirty, wide-awake, wide
«Hypocrisy in anything whatever may deceive the cleverest and most penetrating man, but the least wide-awake of children recognizes it, and is revolted by it, however ingeniously it may be disguised»
Author: Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
(Novelist, Philosopher, Thinker)
| About:
Children,
Hypocrisy
| Keywords:
cleverest, deceive, disguised, hypocrisies, hypocrisy, ingeniously, penetrating, recognizes, revolted, revolts, wide-awake, wide
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