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«There surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the evil.»
Author: Benjamin Haydon
| Keywords:
extract, extracted, extracting, extracts, Human nature, inherent, propensities, propensity
«The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.»
«Literature boils with the madcap careers of writers brought to the edge by the demands of living on their nerves, wringing out their memories and their nightmares to extract meaning, truth, beauty.»
Author: Herbert Gold
| About:
Careers,
Literature,
Writers
| Keywords:
boils, careers, extract, extracted, extracting, madcap, nerves, nightmares, the edge, Wringing, wrings, wring from
«Some read books only with a view to find fault, while others read only to be taught; the former are like venomous spiders, extracting a poisonous quality, where the latter, like the bees, sip out a sweet and profitable juice»
Author: L. Estrange
| About:
Books,
Reading
| Keywords:
extracting, find fault, juice, poisonous, profitable, Read only, sip, Sipping, venomous
«For so long in my marriage and afterwards I'd been in isolation oblivious to everything but my darkest hedonsim and darkest hoursCourtney Love diary extract»
Author: Courtney Love
(Singer)
| Keywords:
afterwards, darkest, extract, extracted, extracting, extracts, isolation, oblivious, The Long Dark
«Marriage is the operation by which a woman's vanity and a man's egotism are extracted without an anaesthetic.»
Author: Helen Rowland
| About:
Marriage
| Keywords:
anaesthetic, egotism, extracted, extracting, extracts, operation, vanity
«A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.»
Author: Helen Rowland
| About:
Husbands
| Keywords:
extracted, extracting, extracts, nerve, The Lover
«He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put into vials hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air in raw, inclement summers.»
Author: Jonathan Swift
(Author, Satirist)
| Keywords:
Air In, cucumber, cucumbers, extracting, hermetically, inclement, sealed, summers, sunbeams, vials
«My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed... And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is.»
Author: Saint Augustine
(Bishop, Theologian)
| Keywords:
attained, bathed, bathes, contradictories, contradictory, extracted, extracting, extracts, find out, flash, flashed, flashing, glance, glanced, glances, glancing, hurried, hurries, images, in a flash, sensuous, The Flash, The Vision, throng, thronged, thronging, thus, wherein, withdrawing, withdraws, withdrew
«Taxation is very much like dairy farming. The task is to extract the maximum amount of milk with the minimum amount of moo. And I'm afraid to say, that these days, all I'm getting is moo.»
Author: Terry Pratchett
(Writer)
| Keywords:
dairy, dairy farming, extract, extracted, extracting, extracts, farming, farms, maximum, milk, minimum, moo, taxation, These Days, The Farm, The Task, very much, very much like
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