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«Doorknob: Read the directions and directly you will be directed in the right direction.»
«May we be fearless... from friends and enemies...from known and unknown ... from night and day...May all the directions be our allies.»
«Dory: What is it with men and asking for directions?»
«Compare society to a boat. Her progress through the water will not depend upon the exertion of her crew, but upon the exertion devoted to propelling her. This will be lessened by any expenditure of force in fighting among themselves, or in pulling in different directions.»
Author: Henry George
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boat, compare, crew, crews, depend upon, devoted, directions, exertion, expenditure, in-fighting, lessened, lessening, lessens, propel, propelled, propelling, propels, pulling, The crew
«Lord Ronald said nothing; he flung himself from the room, flung himself upon his horse and rode madly off in all directions»
«Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated, often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes in between them.»
«If you cry ''Forward'' you must be sure to make clear the direction in which to go. Don't you see that if you fail to do that and simply call out the word to a monk and a revolutionary, they will go in precisely opposite directions?»
Author: Anton Chekhov
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call out, clear, cry, direction, directions, forward, go in, monk, opposite, precisely, revolutionaries, revolutionary, The Monk, The Monks, The Word
«For life is tendency, and the essence of a tendency is to develop in the form of a sheaf, creating, by its very growth, divergent directions among which its impetus is divided.»
Author: Henri Bergson
(Philosopher)
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Life
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directions, divergent, impetus, sheaf, sheaves, tendency
«Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people who live in cities have lost their connection with the earth; they hang, as it were, in the air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle.»
Author: Rainer Maria Rilke
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air, as it were, cities, common language, connection, directions, hang, hover, hovered, hovers, in common, in the air, language, Movements, names, settle, The Connection, the Earth, The Thing
«At night, lots of birds settle on the tree. Some are happy, and some are sad. Caught in the desires of the mind, they perish. And when the life-night comes to its end, then they look to the sky. They fly away in all ten directions, according to their pre-ordained destiny.»
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