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Letter "A" » a few
«None of us knows what the next change is going to be, what unexpected opportunity is just around the corner, waiting a few months or a few years to change all the tenor of our lives.»
Author: Kathleen Norris
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About:
Change
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Keywords:
around,
a few,
corner,
cornered,
each month,
months,
month by month,
next,
none,
opportunity,
tenor,
Tenors,
the next,
This month,
unexpected,
waiting,
years
«To be kind to all, to like many and love a few, to be needed and wanted by those we love, is certainly the nearest we can come to happiness.»
Author: Mary Stuart
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Queen)
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About:
Happiness,
Love
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Keywords:
a few,
certainly,
come,
come to,
few,
kind,
many,
nearest,
near in,
needed,
wanted
«There are many things in life that will catch your eye, but only a few will catch your heart...pursue those.»
Author: Michael Nolan
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About:
Heart
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Keywords:
a few,
catch,
catch on,
catch up with,
eye,
eyeing,
Eye for an eye,
few,
heart,
In My Eyes,
life,
many,
only,
pursue,
see eye to eye,
there,
There are,
The Catch,
things,
those,
will
«Men in general judge more by the sense of sight than by the sense of touch, because everyone can see, but only a few can test by feeling. Everyone sees what you seem to be, few know what you really are, and those few do not dare take a stand against the general opinion.»
Author: Niccolo Machiavelli
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Keywords:
Against the man,
a few,
dare,
general,
in general,
judge,
opinion,
sense of touch,
sight,
sight seeing,
test,
The General,
The sense,
touch
«Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.»
Author: Anais Nin
(
Author)
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About:
Truth
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Keywords:
a few,
expansion,
expansions,
few,
meaning,
reduce,
simplified,
simplifies,
simplify,
simplifying,
the universe,
told,
universe,
word meaning
«Life is like a grapefruit. Well, it's sort of orangy-yellow and dimpled on the outside, wet and squidgy in the middle. It's got pips inside, too. Oh, and some people have a half a one for breakfast.»
Author: Douglas Adams
(
Writer)
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About:
Life
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Keywords:
A-one,
an orange,
a few,
breakfast,
breakfasted,
breakfasts,
folks,
grapefruit,
Half a Life,
half life,
orange,
oranges,
pip,
pips,
squishy
«Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none; be able for thine enemy rather in power than use; and keep thy friend under thine own life's key; be checked for silence, but never taxed for speech»
Author: William Shakespeare
(
Dramatist,
Playwright,
Poet)
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Keywords:
a few,
checked,
checking,
check in,
Check it out,
check up on,
in check,
key,
none,
speech,
taxed,
Thine,
THY,
under
«The Assembly has witnessed over the last weeks how historical truth is established; once an allegation has been repeated a few times, it is no longer an allegation, it is an established fact, even if no evidence has been brought out in order to support it.»
Author: Dag Hammarskjold
(
Statesman)
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Keywords:
allegation,
allegations,
assembly,
at long last,
a few,
brought,
each week,
established,
evidence,
evidences,
fact,
few,
has-been,
historical,
in evidence,
in no time,
in order,
last,
longer,
no longer,
once,
order,
Orders of,
out in,
out of order,
over,
repeated,
support,
take orders,
The Last,
This Week,
times,
weeks,
week after week,
witnessed,
witnessing
«Some men succeed by what they know; some by what they do; and a few by what they are.»
«Men appear to prefer to ruin one another's fortunes, and to cut each other's throats over a few miserable villages, than to extend the means of human happiness»
Author: Voltaire
(
Philosopher,
Writer)
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Keywords:
appear,
a few,
cut,
extend,
extend to,
fortunes,
miserable,
prefer,
ruin,
ruining,
throats,
Villages