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«Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever I find myself involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses, and bringing up the rear of every funeral I meet; and especially whenever my hypos get such an upper hand of me, that it requires a strong moral principle to prevent me from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically knocking people's hats off--then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I can.»
Author: Herman Melville
(Novelist, Poet, Writer)
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«The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
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«The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
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«Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
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majorities, majority, on the side, pause, paused, pausing, reflect, side
«The pause-that impressive silence, that eloquent silence, that geometrically progressive silence, which often achieves a desired effect where no combination of words, howsoever felicitous, could accomplish it»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
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