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«So many people spend their health gaining wealth, and then have to spend their wealth to regain their health.»
«We continue to be exasperated by the view, apparently gaining momentum in certain circles, that armed robbery is okay as long as nobody gets hurt! The proper solution to armed robbery is a dead robber, on the scene.»
Author: Jeff Cooper
| Keywords:
apparently, armed robbery, circles, exasperated, exasperates, exasperating, gaining, on-the-scene, robber, robberies, robbery, scene, The View
«The basis on which good repute in any highly organized industrial community ultimately rests is pecuniary strength; and the means of showing pecuniary strength, and so of gaining or retaining a good name, are leisure and a conspicuous consumption of goods»
Author: Thorstein Veblen
(Economist)
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conspicuous, conspicuous consumption, consumption, gaining, pecuniary, repute, reputed, retaining
«There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest.»
Author: Confucius
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bitterest, easiest, gaining, highest, limitation, methods, reflection, The Second, The Third, third
«Winners have the ability to step back from the canvas of their lives like an artist gaining perspective. They make their lives a work of art / an individual masterpiece.»
Author: Denis Waitley
(Author, Speaker)
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canvas, gaining, perspective, winners, work of art
«The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their strength /each asking from the other instead of finding pleasure in giving. It is even more deceptive to dream of gaining through the child a plenitude, a warmth, a value, which one is unable to create for oneself; the child brings joy only to the woman who is capable of disinterestedly desiring the happiness of another, to one who without being wrapped up in self seeks to transcend her own existence.»
Author: Simone de Beauvoir
(Writer)
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asking, curse, deceptive, desiring, disinterestedly, find oneself, gaining, individuals, joined, plenitude, seeks, self-seeking, transcend, unable, warmth, wrapped, wrapped up
«That kind of life is most happy which affords us most opportunities of gaining our own self-esteem»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
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Self-esteem
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affords, esteem, gaining, self esteem
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