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«Someone once told me that every minute a murder occurs, so I don't want to waste your time, I know you want to go back to work.»
«Middle age occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net»
Author: Franklin Pierce Adams
(Columnist, Journalist, Translator)
| About:
Age
| Keywords:
golf, middle age, net, netting, occurs, rush, take up, The Net, Too Old
«Leisure is a form of silence, not noiselessness. It is the silence of contemplation such as occurs when we let our minds rest on a rosebud, a child at play, a Divine mystery, or a waterfall.»
Author: Fulton J. Sheen
| About:
Leisure
| Keywords:
contemplation, noiselessness, occurs, rest on, rosebud, rosebuds, The Silence, waterfall, waterfalls
«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
«It occurs to her that he is attempting to let her win, an act she considers highly unnecessary since she is the stronger player. She does not appreciate his condescension. But two can play at this game, and she knows the female is infinitely more adept.»
Author: Luis Camara Silva
| Keywords:
adept, attempting, condescension, considers, highly, infinitely, occurs, player, unnecessary
«My best work is often almost unconscious and occurs ahead of my ability to understand it.»
«Leopards break into the temple and drink the sacrificial chalices dry; this occurs repeatedly, again and again; finally it can be reckoned upon beforehand and becomes part of the ceremony»
Author: Franz Kafka
(Writer)
| Keywords:
again and again, beforehand, break into, ceremony, chalice, chalices, dry, Leopards, occurs, reckoned, reckons, repeatedly, sacrificial, temple, The Leopard, The temple
«Men make history, and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.»
Author: Harry S Truman
(President)
| About:
Leadership
| Keywords:
courageous, leaders, occurs, periods, seize, skillful, stands, the other way around
«Nothing that actually occurs is of the smallest importance»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
actually, importance, occurring, occurs, smallest, the smallest
«Let anyone try, I will not say to arrest, but to notice or to attend to, the present moment of time. One of the most baffling experiences occurs. Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| Keywords:
arrest, arresting, arrests, attend to, baffle, baffles, baffling, experiences, fled, flees, grasp, instant, melted, notice, occurs
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