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«The most distinguishing feature of winners is their intensity of purpose.»
«To revolt is a natural tendency of life. Even a worm turns against the foot that crushes it. In general, the vitality and relative dignity of an animal can be measured by the intensity of its instinct to revolt.»
Author: Mikhail Bakunin
(Philosopher)
| Keywords:
crushes, General The, intensity, in general, relative, revolt, revolted, revolts, tendency, vitality, worm
«When a book, any sort of book, reaches a certain intensity of artistic performance it becomes literature. That intensity may be a matter of style, situation, character, emotional tone, or idea, or half a dozen other things. It may also be a perfection of control over the movement of a story similar to the control a great pitcher has over the ball.»
Author: Raymond Chandler
(Writer)
| Keywords:
artistic, ball, dozen, emotional, half a dozen, half dozen, intensity, movement, performance, pitcher, reaches, similar, The Movement, tone
«Your profession is not what brings home your paycheck. Your profession is what you were put on earth to do. With such passion and such intensity that it becomes spiritual in calling.»
Author: Virgil
(Author, Poet)
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Passion
| Keywords:
brings, bring home, intensities, intensity, paycheck, profession, put on, spiritual
«Things fall apart; the center cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity»
Author: William Butler Yeats
(Dramatist, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Anarchy
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anarchy, bad blood, center, ceremony, conviction, dimmed, dimming, dims, drowned, fall apart, innocence, intensities, intensity, loosed, passionate, The Anarchy, The Center, Things Fall Apart, tide
«The inspiring talker produces zeal, whose intensity depends not on the rationality of what is said or the goodness of the cause that is being advocated, but solely on the propagandist's skill in using words in an exciting way»
Author: Aldous Huxley
(Critic, Novelist)
| Keywords:
advocated, inspiring, intensity, propagandist, propagandists, rationality, solely, talker, zeal
«The love of the famous, like all strong passions, is quite abstract. Its intensity can be measured mathematically, and it is independent of persons.»
«When I say madness I mean what I see in a nut house: beat, resigned, dim, diffuse, nowhere people. No fire no intensity no life. There is madness & madness if you want to stretch the word.»
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