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«When nothing seems to help, I go look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before.»
Author: Jacob Riis
(
Photographer,
Reporter)
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Keywords:
a hundred,
a hundred times,
blow,
Blown Away,
crack,
going away,
gone,
hammered,
hammering,
hammers,
hammer in,
hundred-and-first,
hundred,
I go,
look at,
much as,
Nothing yet,
perhaps,
rock,
seems,
showing,
split,
splits,
splitting,
split up,
stonecutter
«What to do if you find yourself stuck in a crack in the ground underneath a giant boulder you can't move, with no hope of rescue. Consider how lucky you are that life has been good to you so far. Alternatively, if life hasn't been good to you so far, which given your current circumstances seems more likely, consider how lucky you are that it won't be troubling you much longer.»
Author: Douglas Adams
(
Writer)
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Keywords:
alternatively,
Boulder,
circumstances,
consider,
crack,
cracking,
crack up,
current,
far,
get stuck,
giant,
given,
grinding,
ground,
grounding,
ground out,
has-been,
hope,
likely,
longer,
luckier,
luckiest,
lucky,
move,
rescue,
rescues,
rescuing,
seems,
so far,
stick in,
stick on,
stick out,
stick up,
stuck,
the sticks,
troubling,
underneath,
under the circumstances
«What seem our worst prayers may really be, in God's eyes, our best. Those, I mean, which are least supported by devotional feeling. For these may come from a deeper level than feeling. God sometimes seems to speak to us most intimately when he catches us, as it were, off our guard.»
Author: C.S. Lewis
(
Novelist,
Scholar)
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Keywords:
as it were,
at the worst,
best,
catches,
catch on,
catch up with,
come,
come off,
deeper,
devotional,
eyes,
feeling,
from,
god,
Good Feeling,
guard,
intimately,
least,
level,
leveled,
leveling,
level best,
may,
mean,
most,
off,
off and on,
off guard,
on and off,
on guard,
on your guard,
prayers,
really,
seem,
seems,
sometimes,
speak,
supported,
these,
The Catch,
the very worst,
those,
U.S.,
us,
were,
worst
«Well I am certainly wiser than this man. It is only too likely that neither of us has any knowledge to boast of; but he thinks that he knows something which he does not know, whereas I am quite conscious of my ignorance. At any rate it seems that I am wiser than he is to this small extent, that I do not think that I know what I do not know.»
Author: Socrates
(
Philosopher)
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Keywords:
at any rate,
boast,
boasted,
certainly,
conscious,
extent,
likely,
neither,
only too,
quite,
rate,
rating,
seems,
This Man,
to that extent,
to what extent,
wiser