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«Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| About:
Humility
| Keywords:
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«[Travel seems] not just a way of having a good time, but something that every self-respecting citizen ought to undertake, like a high-fiber diet, say, or a deodorant.»
Author: Jan Morris
| About:
Travel
| Keywords:
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«Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are the natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted, and slightly savage if he is to sustain and complete an undertaking.»
Author: Jessamyn West
(Writer)
| About:
Writing
| Keywords:
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«By speaking, by thinking, we undertake to clarify things, and that forces us to exacerbate them, dislocate them, schematize them. Every concept is in itself an exaggeration.»
Author: Jose Ortega y Gasset
| Keywords:
clarified, clarifies, clarify, clarifying, concept, dislocate, exacerbate, exacerbated, exaggeration, exaggerations, forces, schematize, speaking, undertake, undertook
«We need very strong ears to hear ourselves judged frankly, and because there are few who can endure frank criticism without being stung by it, those who venture to criticize us perform a remarkable act of friendship, for to undertake to wound or offe»
Author: Michel de Montaigne
(Philosopher, Writer)
| About:
Criticism,
Friendship
| Keywords:
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«It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult undertaking which, more than anything else, will determine its successful outcome.»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| About:
Attitude
| Keywords:
Anything Else, determine, outcome, outcomes, successful, undertaking, undertook
«The United States government must not undertake to run the Churches. When an individual, in the Church or out of it, becomes dangerous to the public interest he must be checked.»
«And the Jews undertook to do as they had begun, and as Mordecai had written unto them; / Because Haman the son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, the enemy of all the Jews, had devised against the Jews to destroy them, and had cast Pur, that is, the lot, to consume them, and to destroy them; / But when Esther came before the king, he commanded by letters that his wicked device, which he devised against the Jews, should return upon his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows.»
«No man undertakes a trade he has not learned, even the meanest; yet every one thinks himself sufficiently qualified for the hardest of all trades- that of government»
Author: Socrates
(Philosopher)
| Keywords:
hardest, meanest, qualified, qualifies, qualify, qualifying, sufficiently, trade, trades, undertakes, undertook
«Our belief at the beginning of a doubtful undertaking is the one thing that assures the successful outcome of any venture»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| About:
Belief,
Success
| Keywords:
assures, assuring, belief, doubtful, outcome, outcomes, successful, undertaking, undertook, venture, ventured, venturing
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