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«By annihilating the desires, you annihilate the mind. Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act.»
«Of all the inventions that have helped to unify China perhaps the airplane is the most outstanding. Its ability to annihilate distance has been in direct proportion to its achievements in assisting to annihilate suspicion and misunderstanding among provincial officials far removed from one another or from the officials at the seat of government.»
Author: Madame Chiang Kai-Shek
| Keywords:
airplane, annihilate, assisting, china, government officials, inventions, misunderstanding, officials, outstanding, provincial, removed, suspicion, unify, unifying
«No man is beaten until his hope is annihilated, his confidence gone. As long as a man faces life hopefully, confidently, triumphantly, he is not a failure; he is not beaten until he turns his back on life.»
Author: Orison Swett Marden
| About:
Hope
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«It sometimes strikes me that the whole of science is a piece of impudence; that nature can afford to ignore our impertinent interference. If our monkey mischief should ever reach the point of blowing up the earth by decomposing an atom, and even annihilated the sun himself, I cannot really suppose that the universe would turn a hair.»
Author: Aleister Crowley
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«By a lie a man throws away and, as it were, annihilates his dignity as a man»
Author: Immanuel Kant
(Philosopher)
| About:
Lies,
Men
| Keywords:
annihilate, annihilates, as it were, dignity, lay away, thrown-away, throws
«Discipline must come through liberty. . . . We do not consider an individual disciplined only when he has been rendered as artificially silent as a mute and as immovable as a paralytic. He is an individual annihilated, not disciplined.»
Author: Maria Montessori
(Educator, Physician)
| About:
Discipline
| Keywords:
annihilate, annihilates, annihilating, artificially, come through, disciplined, immovable, individual liberty, mute, muted, mutes, paralytic, rendered
«On a day of burial there is no perspective -- for space itself is annihilated. Your dead friend is still a fragmentary being. The day you bury him is a day of chores and crowds, of hands false or true to be shaken, of the immediate cares of mourning. The dead friend will not really die until tomorrow, when silence is round you again. Then he will show himself complete, as he was -- to tear himself away, as he was, from the substantial you. Only then will you cry out because of him who is leaving and whom you cannot detain.»
Author: Antoine de Saint-Exupery
(Author, Pilot, Writer)
| Keywords:
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«A woman's hopes are woven of sunbeams; a shadow annihilates them»
Author: George Eliot
(Novelist)
| About:
Hope
| Keywords:
annihilate, annihilates, hopes, shadow, sunbeams, weaves, weaving, wove, woven
«Man can only endure a certain degree of unhappiness; what is beyond that either annihilates him or passes by him and leaves him apathetic»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Men,
Unhappiness
| Keywords:
annihilate, annihilates, apathetic, degree, passes, unhappiness
«If scientific discovery has not been an unalloyed blessing, if it has conferred on mankind the power not only to create but also to annihilate, it has at the same time provided humanity with a supreme challenge and a supreme testing»
Author: John Fitzgerald Kennedy
(President)
| About:
Discovery,
Science,
Testing
| Keywords:
annihilate, annihilates, conferred, scientific discovery, Supreme Power, testing, unalloyed
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