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«If you're a hard-working, flexible, task-oriented computer type with overseas experience, go to the front of the line.»
Author: Carol Kleiman
| Keywords:
flexible, front line, hard line, orient, oriented, orients, overseas, The Front
«Our trouble is that we drink too much tea. I see in this the slow revenge of the Orient, which has diverted the Yellow River down our throats.»
«[The biographer] must be as ruthless as a board meeting smelling out embezzlement, as suspicious as a secret agent riding the Simplon-Orient Express, as cold-eyed as a pawnbroker viewing a leaky concertina.»
Author: Paul Murray Kendall
| Keywords:
biographer, biographers, board, board meeting, concertina, embezzlement, leaky, orient, oriented, pawnbroker, pawnbrokers, riding, ruthless, secret agent, secret agents, viewing
«Ask me no more where Jove bestows, / When June is past, the fading rose; / For in your beauty's orient deep / These flowers, as in their causes, sleep.»
«I'll have them fly to India for gold, / Ransack the ocean for orient pearl.»
Author: Christopher Marlowe
(Playwright, Poet)
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orient, oriented, orients, ransack, ransacked
«Buddha's full teachings dispel the pain of worldly existence and self-oriented peace; may they flourish, spreading prosperity and happiness throughout this spacious world.»
«MONARCH, n. A person engaged in reigning. Formerly the monarch ruled, as the derivation of the word attests, and as many subjects have had occasion to learn. In Russia and the Orient the monarch has still a considerable influence in public affairs and in the disposition of the human head, but in western Europe political administration is mostly entrusted to his ministers, he being somewhat preoccupied with reflections relating to the status of his own head.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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attests, derivation, derivations, formerly, human head, ministers, orient, oriented, orients, Political affairs, preoccupied, preoccupies, preoccupy, Public affairs, reigning, Russia, the Monarch
«So when the sun in bed, / Curtained with cloudy red, / Pillows his chin upon an orient wave.»
«Only a good intellect can orient towards good work. »
«As long as you have attachment to the body and attachment to objects, fear and suffering will be with you. Therefore, Krishna told Arjuna to develop his discrimination and rid himself of body consciousness. He told him that once he was free of body consciousness he would be able to develop integral vision. Embodiments of Love, Mankind today has three types of vision. The first is body oriented vision, which is totally superficial. When you have this kind of vision you see only the external appearance of others, such as the clothes and the ornaments they wear, their facial features, their body characteristics, their peculiarities of speech, etc. This type of vision is oriented only towards the phenomenal world. The second kind of vision is insightful vision.»
Author: Sri Sathya Sai Baba
(Spiritual leader)
| Keywords:
Arjuna, discrimination, embodiments, etc., etc, facial, first appearance, insightful, Krishna, orient, oriented, ornaments, peculiarities, peculiarity, phenomenal
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