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Letter "M" » mounts
«Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career.»
«He is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation.»
Author: Adlai E. Stevenson
(
Ambassador,
Governor,
Politician)
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Keywords:
conservation,
cut,
cut down,
mount,
mounting,
mounts,
mount up,
politician,
redwood,
redwoods,
stump,
stumps
«Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it.»
Author: Oprah Winfrey
(
Actress,
Producer)
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Keywords:
again,
fail,
high,
High Ones,
high time,
high wire,
in good time,
moment,
mount,
mounting,
mounts,
mount up,
second,
second thought,
second time,
The One,
The Second,
This Is,
time and again,
time and time again,
try,
try again,
tumble,
tumbled,
tumbles,
tumbling,
wire,
wired,
wires,
wiring
«I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mount Sinai.»
Author: Orson Welles
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About:
Actors and acting
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Keywords:
beard,
bearded,
cheap,
mount,
mounting,
mounts,
Mount Sinai,
mount up,
seats,
Sinai,
sit back,
theatre,
The Theatre,
wearing
«Most people are willing to take the Sermon on the Mount as a flag to sail under, but few will use it as a rudder by which to steer.»
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
(
Humorist,
Physician,
Poet,
Professor,
Writer)
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Keywords:
flag,
flagging,
Flag of,
mount,
mounting,
mounts,
mount up,
rudder,
sail,
sermon,
Sermon on the Mount,
steer,
steered,
steering,
steers,
The Mount
«I listened, motionless and still; And, as I mounted up the hill, The music in my heart I bore, Long after it was heard no more»
Author: William Wordsworth
(
Poet)
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About:
Heart,
Listening,
Music
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Keywords:
bore,
hill,
listened,
motionless,
mounted,
mounting,
mounts,
mount up,
the Hill
«For thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel, concerning the houses of this city, and concerning the houses of the kings of Judah, which are thrown down by the mounts, and by the sword; / They come to fight with the Chaldeans, but it is to fill them with the dead bodies of men, whom I have slain in mine anger and in my fury, and for all whose wickedness I have hid my face from this city.»
«And the LORD said unto Moses, Get thee up into this mount Abarim, and see the land which I have given unto the children of Israel.»
«Fool that I was, upon my eagle's wings / I bore this wren till I was tired with soaring, / And now he mounts above me.»
«If a man could mount to heaven and survey the mighty universe, his admiration of its beauties would be much diminished unless he had some one to share in his pleasure»
Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero
(
Lawyer,
Orator,
Scholar,
Statesman,
Writer)
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Keywords:
admiration,
beauties,
diminished,
mighty,
mount,
mounting,
mounts,
mount up,
survey,
surveyed,
surveying,
surveys,
The Mighty