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Letter "B" » bents
«In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful.»
Author: Alice Walker
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About:
Beauty,
Nature,
Perfection
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Keywords:
bent,
bents,
contorted,
Everything is Beautiful,
perfect,
The Bends,
trees,
ways,
Weird,
weirder,
weirdest
«Today I bent the truth to be kind, and I have no regret, for I am far surer of what is kind than I am of what is true.»
«None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps. We got here because somebody - a parent, a teacher, an Ivy League crony or a few nuns - bent down and helped us pick up our boots.»
Author: Thurgood Marshall
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Jurist,
Lawyer)
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Keywords:
bent,
bents,
booted,
boots,
cronies,
crony,
helped,
in league,
ivy,
Ivy League,
league,
League of,
Nuns,
parent,
pick,
pick up,
pulling,
pull down,
solely
«Doubt, indulged and cherished, is in danger of becoming denial; but if honest, and bent on thorough investigation, it may soon lead to full establishment of the truth.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
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Editor,
Journalist,
Writer)
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Keywords:
bent,
bents,
bent on,
denial,
establishment,
establishments,
indulged,
indulges,
investigation,
investigations,
thorough
«The ninety and nine are with dreams, content but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true»
Author: Edgar Allan Poe
(
Critic,
Editor,
Poet,
Writer)
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About:
Dreams,
Hope
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Keywords:
bent,
bents,
bent on,
content,
Dreams Come True,
dream world,
grimly,
hundredth,
hundredths,
New Man,
nines,
nineties,
ninety
«It is the stretched soul that makes music, and souls are stretched by the pull of opposites /opposite bents, tastes, yearnings, loyalties. Where there is no polarity /where energies flow smoothly in one direction /there will be much doing but no music.»
Author: Eric Hoffer
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Writer)
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Keywords:
bents,
energies,
flow,
loyalties,
opposite,
opposites,
polarity,
pull,
smoothly,
stretched,
tastes,
yearnings
«A man can't ride your back unless it's bent.»
«Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.»
Author: Plato
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Philosopher)
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Keywords:
able,
accuracy,
amuses,
bent,
bents,
child,
direct,
Directed By,
discover,
force,
genius,
harshness,
In Training,
minds,
peculiar,
The Bends,
The Genius,
to it,
train
«In going where you have to go, and doing what you have to do, and seeing what you have to see, you dull and blunt the instrument you write with. But I would rather have it bent and dulled and know I had to put it on the grindstone again and hammer it.»
Author: Ernest Hemingway
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Keywords:
bent,
bents,
blunt,
blunted,
blunting,
blunts,
dull,
dulled,
grindstone,
hammer,
hammered,
hammering,
hammers,
hammer in,
instrument,
seeing
«Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.»
Author: Kahlil Gibran
(
Essayist,
Novelist,
Poet)
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About:
Love
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Keywords:
beauty,
bent,
bents,
emperors,
follow,
kings,
King He,
kneel,
kneeled,
kneels,
knelt,
like kings,
necked,
necking,
necks,
obey,
obeyed,
The Bends,
The King I,
The King of Kings,
The Necks,
yesterday