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«...Depression is not sobbing and crying and giving vent, it is plain and simple reduction of feeling...People who keep stiff upper lips find that it's damn hard to smile.»
Author: Judith Guest
(Novelist)
| About:
Depression
| Keywords:
crying, depression, give a damn, give vent, Plain People, reduction, reductions, sob, sobbed, sobbing, sobs, stiff, stiffest, stiffing, upper, uppers, vent, vents
«Most people have come to prefer certain of life?s experiences and deny and reject others, unaware of the value of the hidden things that may come wrapped in plain and even ugly paper. In avoiding all pain and seeking comfort at all costs, we may be left without intimacy or compassion; in rejecting change and risk we often cheat ourselves of the quest; in denying our suffering we may never know our strength or our greatness.»
Author: Rachel Naomi Remen
| Keywords:
Avoiding, cheat, cheat on, Cheat The, comfort, compassion, costs, deny, denying, experiences, greatness, hidden, Hidden Things, Hide and seek, intimacies, intimacy, paper, plain, Plain People, prefer, quest, questing, quest after, reject, Rejecting, seeking, The Quest, ugly, unaware, under wraps, wrapped, wrapping, wraps, wrap up
«More people are troubled by what is plain in Scripture than by what is obscure.»
«I hate thinking about it, teaching about it, and writing about it. But the plain truth is that hell is real and real people go there for eternity.»
«Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating. It's just plain wrong.»
«Now therefore send quickly, and tell David, saying, Lodge not this night in the plains of the wilderness, but speedily pass over; lest the king be swallowed up, and all the people that are with him.»
«No one in this world has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby.»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| Keywords:
Great Plains, intelligence, masse, masses, office, plain, Plain People, public, public office, thereby, underestimating
«No one in this world, so far as I know has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| Keywords:
Great Plains, Plain People, underestimating
«About the only thing we have left that actually discriminates in favor of the plain people is the stork.»
«Few people know how to take a walk. The qualifications are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature, good humor, vast curiosity, good speech, good silence and nothing too much.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
clothes, curiosities, curiosity, endurance, eye, few, good-humored, good humor, How to, humor, humored, humors, Know how, old, plain, plainer, plainest, plain clothes, Plain People, qualification, qualifications, shod, shoes, silence, speech, take, too much, vast, Vaster, vastest
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