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«While day by day the overzealous student stores up facts for future use, he who has learned to trust nature finds need for ever fewer external directions. He will discard formula after formula, until he reaches the conclusion: Let nature take its cou»
Author: Larry Bird
(Basketball Player)
| Keywords:
Cou, day by day, directions, discard, fewer, formula, overzealous, reaches, stores, The Conclusion
«Without a trace of irony I can say I have been blessed with brilliant enemies . . . I owe them a great debt, because they redoubled my energies and drove me in new directions.»
Author: Edward O. Wilson
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blessed with, directions, drove, energies, irony, redouble, redoubled, redoubling, trace
«What's with you men? Would hair stop growing on your chest if you asked directions somewhere?»
«Why are we so full of restraint? Why do we not give in all directions? Is it fear of losing ourselves? Until we do lose ourselves there is no hope of finding ourselves.»
Author: Henry Miller
(Author, Writer)
| Keywords:
directions, finding, give in, in all, in restraint, losing, restraint
«Trees go wandering forth in all directions with every wind, going and coming like ourselves, traveling with us around the sun two million miles a day, and through space heaven knows how fast and far!»
Author: John Muir
| Keywords:
Days of Heaven, directions, Gone With the Wind, miles, space travel, traveling, wandering
«We are threatened with suffering from three directions: from our own body, which is doomed to decay and dissolution and which cannot even do without pain and anxiety as warning signals; from the external world, which may rage against us with overwhelming and merciless forces of destruction; and finally from our relations to other men. The suffering which comes from this last source is perhaps more painful than any other.»
Author: Sigmund Freud
(Founder)
| Keywords:
anxiety, decay, destruction, directions, dissolution, doomed, external, finally, forces, merciless, overwhelming, painful, rage, rages, relations, signaling, signals, The Suffering, threatened, warning
«The wisdom of nations lies in their proverbs, which are brief and pithy. Collect and learn them; they are notable measures of directions for human life; you have much in little; they save time in speaking; and upon occasion may be the fullest and safest answer.»
«To fight is a radical instinct; if men have nothing else to fight over they will fight over words, fancies, or women, or they will fight because they dislike each other's looks, or because they have met walking in opposite directions»
Author: George Santayana
(Humanist, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Fighting
| Keywords:
directions, fancies, radical
«Without capital, the trader looks around in all four directions. He does not understand his own origins; the merchandise remains within the door of his own house. Without this commodity, there is great pain.»
«When you are plagued by great and excessive anxiety, and diseases of the body; when you are wrapped up in the attachments of household and family, sometimes feeling joy, and then other times sorrow; when you are wandering around in all four directions, and you cannot sit or sleep even for a moment - if you come to remember the Supreme Lord God, then your body and mind shall be cooled and soothed.»
Author: Sri Guru Granth Sahib
| Keywords:
directions, excessive, Great Plague, household, plagued, wrapped up
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