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«A man nearly always loves for other reasons than he thinks. A lover is apt to be as full of secrets from himself as is the object of his love from him.»
Author: Ben Hecht
(Novelist, Playwright, Writer)
| About:
Love,
Lovers
| Keywords:
apt, The Object of
«At man's core there is a voice that wants him never to give in to fear. But if it is true that in general man cannot give in to fear, at the very least he postpones indefinitely the moment when he will have to confront himself with the object of his fear... when he will no longer have the assistance of reason as guaranteed by God, or when he will no longer have the assistance of God such as reason guaranteed. It is necessary to recoil, but it is necessary to leap, and perhaps one only recoils in order to leap better.»
Author: Georges Bataille
| Keywords:
assistance, confront, core, give in, guaranteed, indefinitely, in general, leap, postpones, recoil, recoils, The Object of
«If Edison had a needle to find in a haystack, he would proceed at once with the diligence of the bee to examine straw after straw until he found the object of his search.I was a sorry witness of such doings, knowing that a little theory and calculation would have saved him ninety per cent of his labor.»
«It is an old psychological axiom that constant exposure to the object of fear immunizes against the fear.»
«Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained.»
Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
(Novelist, Writer)
| About:
Happiness,
World
| Keywords:
attained, chase, goose, incidentally, The Object of, wild-goose chase
«A man may fulfil the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve.»
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
(Humorist, Physician, Poet, Professor, Writer)
| About:
Fulfilment
| Keywords:
asking, attempting, fulfil, The Object of
«Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.»
Author: Thomas Alva Edison
(Inventor)
| Keywords:
accomplishment, busy, forethought, perspiration, planning, production, seeming, The Object of
«Exaggeration of every kind is as essential to journalism as it is to dramatic art, for the object of journalism is to make events go as far as possible»
Author: Arthur Schopenhauer
(Philosopher)
| About:
Journalism
| Keywords:
as far as possible, dramatic, dramatic art, exaggeration, exaggerations, journalism, The Object of
«He who requires much from himself and little from others, will keep himself from being the object of resentment.»
«A good government implies two things: fidelity to the object of government, which is the happiness of the people; secondly, a knowledge of the means by which that object can be best attained»
Author: James Madison
(President)
| About:
Fidelity,
Government,
Knowledge
| Keywords:
attained, fidelity, implies, secondly, The Object of
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