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Letter "L" » lay
«A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.»
Author: David Brinkley
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Journalist)
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About:
Men,
Success
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Keywords:
bricks,
brick in,
firm,
firmer,
firmest,
firming,
firms,
foundation,
get laid,
lay,
laying on,
successful,
The Brick,
thrown
«Determination gives you the resolve to keep going in spite of the roadblocks that lay before you.»
Author: Denis Waitley
(
Author,
Speaker)
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Keywords:
determination,
determinations,
get laid,
gives,
keep going,
lay,
laying on,
resolve,
resolving,
roadblock,
roadblocks,
spite,
with determination
«It's a small apartment, I've barely enough room to lay my hat and a few friends.»
«In the end they will lay their freedom at our feet and say to us, 'Make us your slaves, but feed us»
«I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside me»
Author: Abraham Lincoln
(
President)
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Keywords:
administration,
administrations,
affairs,
conduct,
Down to Earth,
Earth i,
every other,
lay,
lay down,
power i,
rein,
reined,
reins
«But I remember more dearly autumn afternoons in bottoms that lay intensely silent under old great trees»
«Although I cannot lay an egg, I am a very good judge of omelettes»
«A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(
Essayist,
Philosopher,
Poet)
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About:
Actors and acting,
Books
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Keywords:
acting,
began,
commence,
commenced,
commences,
finish,
Good Book,
hint,
hinted,
hinting,
hints,
lay,
teaches
«I am surrounded by priests who repeat incessantly that their kingdom is not of this world, and yet they lay their hands on everything they can get»
«Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.»
Author: Saint Augustine
(
Bishop,
Theologian)
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Keywords:
Begin,
clouded,
clouding,
clouds,
Clouds The,
cloud over,
descending,
foundation,
humility,
lay,
Pierce,
pierces,
piercing,
plan,
rise,
The Clouds,
The Foundation,
tower,
Towered