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«There are high spots in all of our lives and most of them have come about through encouragement from someone else. I don't care how great, how famous or successful a man or woman may be, each hungers for applause.»
Author: George Matthew Adams
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applause, come about, encouragement, famous, Famous Or, hungers, spots
«Most of the time I played by myself. Even then I was a loner, and I have stayed a loner all my life. [It] can make a man seem a little distant or aloof -- but it has helped pull me through some tight spots and hard times.»
«Spots are on the surface of the solar body where they are produced and also dissolved, some in shorter and others in longer periods. They are carried around the Sun; an important occurrence in itself.»
Author: Galileo Galilei
(Astronomer, Mathematician, Philosopher)
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Science
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and others, dissolved, occurrence, occurrences, periods, shorter, spots, surface of
«Old age is when the liver spots show through your gloves»
«Physical pleasure is a sensual experience no different from pure seeing or the pure sensation with which a fine fruit fills the tongue; it is a great unending experience, which is given us, a knowing of the world, the fullness and the glory of all knowing. And not our acceptance of it is bad; the bad thing is that most people misuse and squander this experience and apply it as a stimulant at the tired spots of their lives and as distraction instead of a rallying toward exalted moments.»
Author: Rainer Maria Rilke
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acceptance, all knowing, apply, Bad Thing, distraction, distractions, exalted, exalting, exalts, fills, fruit, fullness, glory, misuse, physical thing, physical world, rallies, rally, rallying, seeing, sensation, sensual, spots, squander, squandered, squandering, squanders, stimulant, stimulants, tired, unending
«If a man also or a woman have in the skin of their flesh bright spots, even white bright spots; / Then the priest shall look: and, behold, if the bright spots in the skin of their flesh be darkish white; it is a freckled spot that groweth in the skin; he is clean.»
«Lamps make oil-spots and candles need snuffing; it is only the light of heaven that shines pure and leaves no stain»
«I was born modest; not all over, but in spots.»
«Man seeks joy in far off places and peace in quiet spots; but the spring of joy is in his heart. the haven of peace is in himself. Even when he walks on the moon, man has to take with him, his fears, his anxieties, his prejudices and his pet aversions.»
«There are in our existence spots of timeThat with distinct pre-eminence retainA renovating virtue, whence . . . our mindsAre nourished and invisibly repaired.»
Author: William Wordsworth
(Poet)
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eminence, invisibly, nourished, renovate, renovating, repaired, retain, spots
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