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«He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.»
Author: Aeschylus
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Dramatist,
Playwright)
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Keywords:
awful,
despair,
drop,
drop by,
falls,
grace,
grace of God,
learns,
sleep,
suffer
«Love is a piano dropped from a fourth story window, and you were in the wrong place at the wrong time.»
Author: Ani Difranco
(
Guitarist,
Singer,
Song Writer)
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About:
Funny,
Love
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Keywords:
dropped,
drop by,
drop in,
drop out,
fourth,
love story,
piano,
pianos,
place,
story,
window
«Scientists tell us that the fastest animal on earth, with a top speed of 120 feet per second, is a cow that has been dropped out of a helicopter.»
Author: Dave Barry
(
Humorist,
Writer)
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About:
Funny
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Keywords:
animal,
cow,
cowed,
dropped,
drop by,
fastest,
feet,
has-been,
helicopter,
helicopters,
on earth,
PER,
scientists,
second,
sped,
speed,
speeded,
speeded up,
speeds,
speed up,
The Scientists,
top
«The aim of music is not to express feelings but to express music. It is not a vessel into which the composer distills his soul drop by drop, but a labyrinth with no beginning and no end, full of new paths to discover, where mystery remains eternal.»
Author: Pierre Boulez
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Keywords:
composer,
distill,
distilling,
distills,
drop by,
express feelings,
labyrinth,
labyrinths,
no end,
paths,
vessel
«If toast always lands butter-side down, and cats always land on their feet, what happens if you strap toast on the back of a cat and drop it?»
Author: Stephen Wright
(
Actor,
Writer)
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About:
Cats,
Funny
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Keywords:
back,
back down,
butter,
buttered,
CAT,
cats,
down,
drop,
drop back,
drop by,
drop down,
drop in,
drop out,
feet,
happens,
land,
lands,
on land,
side,
sided,
Side Out,
strap,
strapped,
straps,
toast,
toasted,
toasting
«How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on»
Author: Antoine de Saint-Exupery
(
Author,
Pilot,
Writer)
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Keywords:
drops,
drop by,
drop in,
drop out,
flowed,
flows,
flow out,
river,
River The,
themselves,
The River,
water,
yet
«A jug fills drop by drop.»
«The Wine of Life keeps oozing drop by drop, The Leaves of Life keep falling one by one»
«If God dropped acid, would he see people?»
«Severities should be dealt out all at once, so that their suddenness may give less offense; benefits ought to be handed ought drop by drop, so that they may be relished the more.»
Author: Niccolo Machiavelli
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Keywords:
all at once,
benefits,
dealt,
dealt out,
drop,
drop by,
handed,
offense,
offenses,
relished,
relishes,
relishing,
suddenness