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«Sounds like a get poor quick scheme to me.»
«Know that although in the eternal scheme of things you are small, you are also unique and irreplaceable, as are all your fellow humans everywhere in the world.»
Author: Margaret Laurence
| Keywords:
although, eternal, everywhere, humans, irreplaceable, scheme, scheming, Small World, The Eternal, unique
«There is little place in the political scheme of things for an independent, creative personality, for a fighter. Anyone who takes that role must pay a price.»
«Surely there must be some way to find a husband or, for that matter, merely an escort, without sacrificing one's privacy, self-respect, and interior decorating scheme. For example, men could be imported from the developing countries, many parts of which are suffering from a man excess, at least in relation to local food supply.»
Author: Barbara Ehrenreich
| Keywords:
decorate, decorated, decorating, developing, developing countries, escort, escorted, escorting, escorts, food supply, for example, for that matter, import, imported, imports, Interior, in relation to, local, of import, relation to, scheme, supply
«There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much; but then, if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better: we find comfort somewhere . . .»
Author: Jane Austen
(Novelist, Writer)
| Keywords:
apt, but then, calculation, disappointments, everywhere, fails, Human nature, rubbing, rubs, rub up, scheme, scheming, turns
«My earlier views at the unsoundness of the Christian scheme of salvation and the human origin of the scriptures, have become clearer and stronger with advancing years and I see no reason for thinking I shall ever change them»
Author: Abraham Lincoln
(President)
| About:
Christianity,
Reason
| Keywords:
advancing, Christian, clearer, earlier, early Christians, ever-changing, human origin, origin, salvation, scheme, scheming, scriptures, stronger, The Christian, unsoundness, views, years
«Philosophy first constructs a scheme of happiness and then tries to fit the world to it»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| Keywords:
constructing, constructs, fit, scheme, scheming, tries
«There are two things to be considered with regard to any scheme. In the first place, ''Is it good in itself?'' In the second, ''Can it be easily put into practice?''»
«I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it's a very poor scheme for survival.»
Author: Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
(Writer)
| Keywords:
crowning, Crown of Glory, evolution, human brain, scheme, survival
«Old age has the last word: the purely naturalistic look at life, however enthusiastically it may begin, is sure to end in sadness. . . . This sadness lies at the heart of every merely positivistic, agnostic, or naturalistic scheme of philosophy.»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| Keywords:
enthusiastically, last word, naturalistic, positivistic, purely, scheme, The Last Word
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