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Letter "E" » eager
«The reason there's so much ignorance is that those who have it are so eager to share it.»
«The Road goes ever on and on down from the door where it began. Now far ahead the Road has gone, and I must follow, if I can, pursuing it with eager feet, until it joins some larger way where many paths and errands meet. And whither then? I cannot say.»
Author: J.R.R. Tolkien
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Author,
Writer)
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About:
Life
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Keywords:
ahead,
began,
door,
eager,
errands,
feet,
gone,
joins,
larger,
On and On,
paths,
pursuing,
The Road Ahead,
whither
«The kind of people I look for to fill top management spots are the eager beavers, the mavericks. These are the guys who try to do more than they're expected to do / they always reach.»
«The question is, why are politicians so eager to be president? What is it about the job that makes it worth revealing, on national television, that you have the ethical standards of a slime-coated piece of industrial waste?»
Author: Dave Barry
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Humorist,
Writer)
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About:
Politicians,
Politics,
Questioning
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Keywords:
coated,
coating,
eager,
ethical,
ethical standards,
industrial,
industrial waste,
national,
piece,
Politicians,
President,
revealing,
slime,
standards,
television,
The Job,
The Question
«There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.»
«We are eager to tunnel under the Atlantic and bring the Old World some weeks nearer to the New; but perchance the first news that will leak through into the broad, flapping American ear will be that the Princess Adelaide has the whooping cough.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
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Essayist,
Philosopher,
Poet)
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Keywords:
Adelaide,
Atlantic,
cough,
coughing,
coughs,
eager,
flap,
flapped,
flapping,
flaps,
leak,
leaking,
leaks,
leak out,
Old World,
perchance,
The Tunnel,
whooping cough
«Thou know'st the o'er-eager vehemence of youth, How quick in temper, and in judgment weak»
«We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim / objects press around us, filling the mind with the throng of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
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Critic,
Dramatist,
Novelist,
Poet)
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Keywords:
brim,
brimming,
brims,
draining,
eager,
filling,
haste,
overflows,
quaff,
quaffed,
quaffing,
throng,
thronged,
thronging,
waiting room
«The newer people, of this modern age, are more eager to amass than to realize.»
«The Vedas are the oldest literary creations of man. Now the word 'literature' is used to connote writings scribbled while eager to find something to spend the time hanging on hand. They have no inner worth or significance; they destroy the traits of good character in the reader and implant bad attitudes and habits; they do not adhere to the path of Truth.»