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Letter "A" » a hundred
«Where one man reads the Bible, a hundred read you and me.»
«When nothing seems to help, I go look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before.»
Author: Jacob Riis
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Photographer,
Reporter)
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Keywords:
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Blown Away,
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hammered,
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I go,
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much as,
Nothing yet,
perhaps,
rock,
seems,
showing,
split,
splits,
splitting,
split up,
stonecutter
«This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First to let go of life. Finally, to take a step without feet.»
Author: Jalal ad-Din Rumi
(
Mystic,
Poet)
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About:
Love
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Keywords:
a hundred,
feet,
finally,
first cause,
first moment,
First to,
fly,
hundred,
let fly,
let go,
let go of,
sky,
step,
To Fly,
veiling,
veils
«You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred.»
«Who punishes one threatens a hundred»
«When one has a great deal to put into it a day has a hundred pockets.»
«When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(
Critic,
Philosopher,
Scholar)
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Keywords:
another,
a hundred,
each,
gets,
His,
hundred,
loses,
men,
mind,
of one mind,
stand,
stand out,
Them,
The Stand,
together
«The supreme excellence is not to win a hundred victories in a hundred battles. The supreme excellence is to subdue the armies of your enemies without even having to fight them.»
Author: Lao Tzu
(
Philosopher)
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Keywords:
armies,
a hundred,
battles,
enemies,
excellence,
fight,
Having,
hundred,
subdue,
subdues,
supreme,
victories,
win
«Why that's a hundred miles away. That's a long way to go just to eat.»