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Letter "A" » almost
«Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out... Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.»
Author: A. E. Housman
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Poet,
Scholar)
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About:
Poetry
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Keywords:
almost,
draw,
extinguish,
extinguishes,
extinguishing,
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meaning,
perfect,
poetry,
understanding,
usually
«Computers have enabled people to make more mistakes faster than almost any invention in history, with the possible exception of tequila and hand guns»
Author: Mitch Ratcliffe
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About:
Computers,
Funny,
Mistakes
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Keywords:
almost,
Computers,
enabled,
exception,
faster,
guns,
hand,
hand made,
history,
invention,
in history,
mistakes,
possible,
tequila,
The Exceptions,
very fast
«He was one of those men who possess almost every gift, except the gift of the power to use them»
«He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
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Critic,
Philosopher,
Scholar)
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Keywords:
almost,
any,
bear,
bear on,
bear up,
has,
has a,
how,
live,
To Live,
why
«Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.»
Author: G. K. Chesterton
(
Critic,
Essayist,
Novelist,
Poet)
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About:
Courage
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Keywords:
almost,
contradiction,
contradiction in terms,
courage,
desire,
die,
form,
means,
readiness,
strong,
taking,
termed,
terms,
To Live
«Almost everything you do will seem insignificant, but it is important that you do it»
«Almost always, the creative dedicated minority has made the world better.»
«Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people.»
«A person can stand almost anything except a succession of ordinary days.»
«Almost any man worthy of his salt would fight to defend his home, but no one ever heard of a man going to war for his boarding house»
Author: Mark Twain
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Humorist,
Lecturer,
Writer)
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Keywords:
almost,
boarded,
boarding,
boarding house,
Board of,
defend,
fight,
Going Home,
heard,
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house,
housed,
housing,
In Your House,
One House,
Our House,
salt,
salted,
war,
worthy