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«It's surprising how much of memory is built around things unnoticed at the time»
«It's surprising how hard we'll work when the work is done just for ourselves.»
«Nothing is more surprising than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few.»
Author: David Hume
(Economist, Essayist, Historian, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
easiness, governed, surprising
«Nobody can misunderstand a boy like his own mother. Mothers at present can bring children into the world, but this performance is apt to mark the end of their capacities. They can't even attend to the elementary animal requirements of their offspring. It is quite surprising how many children survive in spite of their mothers.»
Author: George Norman Douglas
(Composer)
| Keywords:
attend, attend to, at present, capacities, elementary, misunderstand, offspring, requirements, surprising
«It is hardly surprising that women concentrate on the way they look instead of what was in their minds since not much has been put in their minds to begin with»
Author: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
(Novelist)
| About:
Women
| Keywords:
concentrate, concentrate on, hardly, on the way, put in, surprising
«It is surprising what a man can do when he has to, and how little most men will do when they don't have to»
«One of the surprising things in this world is the respect a worthless man has for himself»
Author: Edgar Watson Howe
(Editor, Essayist, Novelist)
| About:
Self-respect
| Keywords:
surprising, worthless
«It is surprising, in the welter of questions that one gets at (languor), how few actually relate to the performance of the company, or the decisions taken by the board in particular areas.»
Author: Buddha
| About:
Death and dying,
Health,
Life
| Keywords:
areas, board, Board of, decisions, in particular, languor, performance, relate, surprising, welter, weltering
«Nothing appears more surprising to those who consider human affairs with a philosophical eye, than the ease with which the many are governed by the few»
Author: David Hume
(Economist, Essayist, Historian, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
philosophical, surprising
«It is not more surprising to be born twice than once; everything in nature is resurrection»
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