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«A happy marriage perhaps represents the ideal of human relationship / a setting in which each partner, while acknowledging the need of the other, feels free to be what he or she by nature is: a relationship in which instinct as well as intellect can find expression; in which giving and taking are equal; in which each accepts the other, and I confronts Thou.»
Author: Anthony Storr
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accepts, acknowledging, by nature, confronts, Feel free, free expression, human relationship, partner, represents, setting
«Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim»
«Are bombs the only way of setting fire to the spirit of a people? Is the human will as inert as the past two world-wide wars would indicate?»
«Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life»
Author: Jean de La Fontaine
(Poet)
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Friendship
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evening, increases, setting, shadow, Shadow of the, The Shadow
«Beauty is an all-pervading presence. It unfolds to the numberless flowers of the Spring; it waves in the branches of the trees and in the green blades of grass; it haunts the depths of the earth and the sea, and gleams out in the hues of the shell and the precious stone. And not only these minute objects, but the ocean, the mountains, the clouds, the heavens, the stars, the rising and the setting sun all overflow with beauty. The universe is its temple; and those people who are alive to it can not lift their eyes without feeling themselves encompassed with it on every side.»
Author: William Ellery Channing
(Author, Clergyman)
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«Do not dismayed daughters, at the number of things which you have to consider before setting out on this divine journey, which is the royal road to heaven. By taking this road we gain such precious treasures that it is no wonder if the cost seems to us a high one. The time will come when we shall realize that all we have paid has been nothing at all by comparison with the greatness of our prizes.»
Author: St. Teresa of Avila
(Mystic, Nun, Writer)
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comparison, comparisons, cost, daughters, dismay, dismayed, dismaying, prizes, royal, royal road, setting, The Daughter of Time, treasures
«Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.»
Author: Ayn Rand
(Novelist, Writer)
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Civilization
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civilization, privacy, ruled, rule of law, savage, savaged, setting, set free, Society of, The Process, The Rule of Law, tribe
«Approximately 80% of our air pollution stems from hydrocarbons released by vegetation, so let's not go overboard in setting and enforcing tough emission standards from man-made sources»
Author: Ronald Reagan
(President)
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air pollution, approximately, emission, emissions, enforcing, overboard, pollution, released, setting, sources, standards, stemmed, stems, vegetation
«Ever notice how irons have a setting for permanent press? I don't get it...»
«Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital.»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
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Books
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article, Articles of, capital, constitute, fairly, hundreds, lasts, out in, professional, professional life, setting, the article
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