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«A bad review is like baking a cake with all the best ingredients and having someone sit on it»
«Absence is one of the most useful ingredients of family life, and to dose it rightly is an art like any other.»
Author: Freya Stark
| About:
Absence
| Keywords:
dose, doses, dosing, family life, ingredients, rightly
«One is happy as a result of one's own efforts once one knows the necessary ingredients of happiness simple tastes, a certain degree of courage, self denial to a point, love of work, and above all, a clear conscience.»
Author: George Sand
| About:
Happiness
| Keywords:
degree, denial, efforts, ingredients, self-denial, tastes
«Looks are so deceptive that people should be done up like food packages with the ingredients clearly labeled»
Author: Helen Hudson
| Keywords:
deceptive, done up, ingredients, labeled, packaged, packages, packaging
«Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all.»
Author: John W. Gardner
(Secretary, Writer)
| About:
Politics
| Keywords:
conviction, diagnoses, diagnosis, excessively, extremism, identifiable, ills, ingredients, involves, prime, primed, villains
«A diplomat's life is made up of three ingredients: protocol, Geritol and alcohol.»
Author: Adlai E. Stevenson
(Ambassador, Governor, Politician)
| About:
Diplomacy
| Keywords:
alcohol, diplomat, Geritol, ingredients, protocol, protocols
«There are three ingredients to the good life; learning, earning, and yearning.»
Author: Christopher Morley
| About:
Life
| Keywords:
earning, Good Life, ingredients, The Good Life, yearning, yearnings
«The great difference between those who succeed and those who fail does not consist in the amount of work done by each but in the amount of intelligent work. Many of those who fail most ignominiously do enough to achieve grand success but they labor haphazardly at whatever they are assigned, building up with one hand to tear down with the other. They do not grasp circumstances and change them into opportunities. They have no faculty for turning honest defeats into telling victories. With ability enough and ample time, the major ingredients of success, they are forever throwing back and forth an empty shuttle and the real web of their life is never woven.»
Author: Og Mandino
(Essayist, Psychologist)
| Keywords:
ample, assign, assigned, assigning, assigns, back and forth, back down, building up, change hands, consist, defeats, faculty, grand, grasp, hands down, hand down, haphazardly, ignominiously, ingredients, intelligent life, major, shuttle, tear, tearing down, tear down, telling, throwing, turning, turn down, victories, web, woven
«I understood that all the material of a literary work was in my past life, I understood that I had acquired it in the midst of frivolous amusements, in idleness, in tenderness and in pain, stored up by me without my divining its destination or even its survival, as the seed has in reserve all the ingredients which will nourish the plant.»
Author: Marcel Proust
(Author, Novelist)
| Keywords:
amusements, by me, divining, frivolous, ingredients, literary, literary work, nourish, past life, reserve, stored up, tenderness, The Plant
«Envy among other ingredients has a mixture of the love of justice in it. We are more angry at undeserved than at deserved good-fortune.»
Author: William Hazlitt
(Writer)
| Keywords:
deserved, good fortune, ingredients, mixture, undeserved
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