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Letter "S" » shells
«Try to be like the turtle -- at ease in your own shell»
«The jewel of the soul is priceless, and yet it is being squandered like this, in exchange for a mere shell.»
Author: Sri Guru Granth Sahib
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like this,
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priceless,
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shells,
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The Exchange
«Perhaps middle-age is, or should be, a period of shedding shells; the shell of ambition, the shell of material accumulations and possessions, the shell of the ego»
Author: Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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About:
Age
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accumulations,
ambition,
ego,
material,
middle,
middle age,
period,
possessions,
shedding,
shell,
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«The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell.»
«The trouble with Germans is not that they fire shells, but that they engrave them with quotations from Kant»
Author: Karl Kraus
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Critic,
Journalist,
Playwright,
Poet)
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Trouble
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Keywords:
engrave,
engraved,
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Germans,
Kant,
quotations,
shells
«Words today are like the shells and rope of seaweed which a child brings home glistening from the beach and which in an hour have lost their luster.»
«Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.»