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«People are always shouting they want to create a better future. It's not true. The future is an apathetic void of no interest to anyone. The past is full of life, eager to irritate us, provoke and insult us, tempt us to destroy or repaint it. The only reason people want to be masters of the future is to change the past.»
Author: Milan Kundera
(Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
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apathetic, eager, full of life, insult, irritate, Masters, past master, provoke, provokes, repaint, repainted, shouting, tempt, void, voids, void of
«Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.»
Author: Thomas Arnold
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begun, cooled, disappear, eager, frequently, happiest, infirmities, midday, middle age, of age, The Shadows
«He wove a great web of knowledge, linking everything together, and sat modestly at a switchboard at the center, eager to help.»
«People who lead a lonely existence always have something on their minds that they are eager to talk about.»
«Since the masses are always eager to believe something, for their benefit nothing is so easy to arrange as facts.»
«Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.»
«None are so eager to gain new experience as those who don't know how to make use of the old ones.»
«Lazy people are always eager to be doing something»
«In America, Russia and even in Afghanistan, the Universities are not only themselves eager to introduce Sanskrit as a subject of study but they are being pressed by scholars to do so! Foreigners are revering these texts from India as gems of lucky discovery.»
Author: Sri Sathya Sai Baba
(Spiritual leader)
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Afghanistan, eager, in Afghanistan, pressed, revering, Russia, Sanskrit, scholars
«Moving between the legs of tables and of chairs, rising or falling, grasping at kisses and toys, advancing boldly, sudden to take alarm, retreating to the corner of arm and knee, eager to be reassured, taking pleasure in the fragrant brilliance of thee.»
Author: T.S. Eliot
(Critic, Editor, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
alarm, boldly, eager, knee, reassured, retreating, tables
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