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«But he that dares not grasp the thorn Should never crave the rose.»
«The actual infinite arises in three contexts: first when it is realized in the most complete form, in a fully independent otherworldly being, in Deo, where I call it the Absolute Infinite or simply Absolute; second when it occurs in the contingent, created world; third when the mind grasps it in abstracto as a mathematical magnitude, number or order type.»
Author: Georg Cantor
| About:
Infinity,
Mathematics
| Keywords:
absolute magnitude, contingent, contingent on, grasps, infinite number, occurs, otherworldly
«Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you»
Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
(Novelist, Writer)
| About:
Happiness
| Keywords:
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«Patience permits us to cling to our faith in the Lord when we are tossed about by suffering as if by surf. When the undertow grasps us we will realize that we are somehow being carried forward even as we tumble. We are actually being -helped even as we cry for help.»
«I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation.»
Author: Samuel Osgood
(Politician)
| About:
Character,
Connection,
Respect,
Sensations
| Keywords:
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«Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality.»
«Anything beyond the limits and grasp of the human mind is either illusion or futility; and because your god having to be one or the other of the two, in the first instance I should be mad to believe in him, and in the second a fool»
Author: Marquis De Sade
(Novelist)
| Keywords:
Beyond the Limits, first instance, futility, grasp, grasps, human mind, illusion, instance, limits, mad, The Second
«Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.»
Author: Buddha
| About:
Anger
| Keywords:
anger, angered, angers, burned, burned at, burning in, burn in, burn out, burn up, coal, else, gets, get hold, get hold of, grasping, grasps, holding, hold over, hold still for, hot, hotter, intent, intents, like, someone, Someone else, The One, throwing, throw in, throw out, throw up, with
«The man who grasps an opportunity as it is paraded before him, nine times out of ten makes a success, but the man who makes his own opportunities is, barring an accident, a sure-fire success»
Author: Dale Carnegie
| About:
Opportunity,
Success
| Keywords:
accident, barring, grasps, nine times, paraded, parading, sure-fire
«Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.»
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