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«[Lyndon] was the most outspoken, straightforward, determined person I'd ever encountered. I knew I'd met something remarkable-but I didn't know quite what.»
Author: Claudia Lady Bird Johnson
(First Lady)
| Keywords:
encountered, Lyndon, outspoken, remarkable, straightforward
«For an interest to be rewarding, one must pay in discipline and dedication, especially though the difficult or boring stages which are inevitably encountered»
Author: Mira Komarovsky
| About:
Interest
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dedication, encountered, inevitably, rewarding, stages
«Away she hurried, not beautiful, not supremely brilliant, but filled with something that took the place of both qualities -- something best described as a profound vivacity, a continual and sincere response to all that she encountered in her path through life.»
«His courtesy was somewhat extravagant. He would write and thank people who wrote to thank him for wedding presents and when he encountered anyone as punctilious as himself the correspondence ended only with death.»
Author: Evelyn Waugh
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correspondence, Correspondences, courtesy, encountered, ended, extravagant, presents, punctilious, somewhat, wedding
«It was certainly not by design that the particles fell into order, they did not work out what they were going to do, but because many of them by many chances struck one another in the course of infinite time and encountered every possible form and mo»
«It is not ease but effort, not facility but difficult, that makes man. There is perhaps no station in life in which difficulties do not have to be encountered and overcome before any decided means of success can be achieved.»
«Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| About:
Genius,
Mediocrity,
Mind,
Spirit
| Keywords:
encountered, Great Spirit, mediocre, opposition, spirits, violent
«By this, he seemed to mean, not only that the most reliable and useful courage was that which arises from the fair estimation of the encountered peril, but that an utterly fearless man is a far more dangerous comrade than a coward.»
Author: Herman Melville
(Novelist, Poet, Writer)
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comrade, encountered, estimation, fearless, peril
«I maintain that some Jew wrote it (the Book of James) who probably heard about Christian people but never encountered any»
«All of childhood's unanswered questions must finally be passed back to the town and answered there. Heroes and bogey men, values and dislikes, are first encountered and labeled in that early environment. In later years they change faces, places and maybe races, tactics, intensities and goals, but beneath those penetrable masks they wear forever the stocking-capped faces of childhood.»
Author: Maya Angelou
(Poet)
| Keywords:
answered, bogey, capped, caps, dislikes, early childhood, encountered, face value, heroes, intensities, labeled, masks, penetrable, races, stocking, stockings, tactic, tactics, the town, town, unanswered
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