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Letter "P" » peak
«Happiness consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, it must go out, and the presentiment of its end destroys it at its very peak.»
«Now the peak of summer's past, the sky is overcast / And the love we swore would last for an age seems deceit.»
«Peak performers develop powerful mental images of the behavior that will lead to the desired results. They see in their mind's eye the result they want, and the actions leading to it.»
«I've been in on the beginning, the rise, peak, collapse and end of the talking picture.»
«Men reach their sexual peak at eighteen. Women reach theirs at thirty-five. Do you get the feeling that God is playing a practical joke?»
Author: Rita Rudner
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Comedian,
Writer)
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About:
Funny,
Marriage,
Sex
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Keywords:
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five,
in jokes,
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sexual,
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the Peak,
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thirty-five,
thirty
«I see that old flagpole still stands. Have your troops hoist the colors to its peak, and let no enemy ever haul them down.»
Author: Douglas MacArthur
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General)
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Keywords:
flagpole,
haul,
hauled,
hauling,
haul up,
hoist,
hoisted,
hoisting,
its color,
peak,
troops
«Like tourists huffing and puffing to reach the peak we forget the view on the way up»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(
Critic,
Philosopher,
Scholar)
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Keywords:
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huff,
huffing,
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like,
on the way,
out of reach,
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the Peak,
The View,
The Way,
tourists,
view,
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way
«In the mountains, the shortest way is from peak to peak: but for that you must have long legs»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(
Critic,
Philosopher,
Scholar)
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About:
Mountains
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Keywords:
legs,
leg it,
mountains,
mountain peak,
must have,
peak,
peaked,
shortest,
the Peak
«One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.»
Author: G. K. Chesterton
(
Critic,
Essayist,
Novelist,
Poet)
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Keywords:
from the,
great,
peak,
peaked,
Seeing Things,
sees,
small,
the Peak,
The Valley,
valley
«Big Sur is the California that men dreamed of years ago, this is the Pacific that Balboa looked at from the Peak of Darien, this is the face of the earth as the Creator intended it to look»