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Letter "E" » energetic
«I learned... that inspiration does not come like a bolt, nor is it kinetic, energetic striving, but it comes into us slowly and quietly and all the time, though we must regularly and every day give it a little chance to start flowing, prime it with a little solitude and idleness.»
Author: Brenda Ueland
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«I would rather have five energetic and competent enemies than one fool friend.»
«In this very real world, good doesn't drive out evil. Evil doesn't drive out good. But the energetic displaces the passive.»
«The Earth is the most powerful and energetic planet.»
«Good luck is the willing handmaid of a upright and energetic character, and conscientious observance of duty.»
Author: James Russell Lowell
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Critic,
Diplomat,
Editor,
Essayist,
Poet)
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Keywords:
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good luck,
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observance,
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«The mechanism that directs government cannot be virtuous, because it is impossible to thwart every crime, to protect oneself from every criminal without being criminal too; that which directs corrupt mankind must be corrupt itself; and it will never be by means of virtue, virtue being inert and passive, that you will maintain control over vice, which is ever active: the governor must be more energetic than the governed.»
Author: Marquis De Sade
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Novelist)
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energetic,
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«Hobbes might be a little closer to me in terms of personality, with Calvin being more energetic, brash, always looking for life on the edge. He lives entirely in the present, and whatever he can do to make that moment more exciting he'll just let fly . . . and I'm really not like that at all.»
«The world belongs to the energetic»