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Letter "S" » spirited
«Baseball is the exponent of American Courage, Confidence, Combativeness, American Dash, Discipline, Determination, American Energy, Eagerness, Enthusiasm, American Pluck, Persistency, Performance, American Spirit, Sagacity, Success, American Vim, Vigor, Virility.»
Author: Al Spalding
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Keywords:
All American,
American,
baseball,
baseballs,
combativeness,
confidence,
confidences,
courage,
dash,
dashed,
dashing,
determination,
determinations,
discipline,
Disciplining,
eagerness,
energy,
enthusiasm,
enthusiasms,
exponent,
exponents,
performance,
persistency,
pluck,
plucks,
sagacity,
spirit,
spirited,
spiriting,
spirit up,
success,
vigor,
vim,
virility,
with determination
«I would rather have as my patron a host of anonymous citizens digging into their own pockets for the price of a book or a magazine than a small body of enlightened and responsible men administering public funds. I would rather chance my personal vision of truth striking home here and there in the chaos of publication that exists than attempt to filter it through a few sets of official, honorably public-spirited scruples.»
Author: John Updike
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Keywords:
administering,
anonymous,
Body of,
digging,
enlightened,
filter,
filtered,
filtering,
filters,
funds,
here and there,
honorably,
host,
magazine,
official,
patron,
patrons,
pockets,
public-spirited,
publication,
publications,
public funds,
scruple,
scruples,
spirited,
strike home,
striking
«Faithful horoscope-watching, practiced daily, provides just the sort of small but warm and infinitely reassuring fillip that gets matters off to a spirited start.»
Author: Shana Alexander
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Editor,
Host,
Journalist,
Teacher)
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Keywords:
fillip,
horoscope,
horoscopes,
infinitely small,
practiced,
provides,
reassure,
reassuring,
spirited
«It is better to be high-spirited even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all to prudent.»
Author: Vincent van Gogh
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Painter)
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Keywords:
good spirit,
high-spirited,
high,
High Ones,
in good spirits,
minded,
narrow-minded,
narrow,
narrowed,
narrower,
narrowest,
narrowing,
narrows,
narrow mind,
prudent,
spirited,
though
«My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.»
Author: Albert Einstein
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Physicist)
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Keywords:
able,
abler,
ablest,
admiration,
are,
come to mind,
consists,
detailed,
details,
feeble,
feebler,
feeblest,
frail,
frailer,
frailest,
have in mind,
humble,
humbler,
humbles,
humbling,
illimitable,
in detail,
In the,
mind,
minding,
My Religion,
of the same mind,
perceive,
religion,
revealed religion,
reveals,
slight,
slighted,
slights,
spirit,
spirited,
spiriting,
spirit up,
superior,
WHO,
with
«It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.»
«Many heroes lived before Agamemnon; but all are unknown and unwept, extinguished in everlasting night, because they have no spirited chronicler.»
«How many famous and high-spirited heroes have lived a day too long?»
«Any so-called material thing that you want is merely a symbol: you want it not for itself, but because it will content your spirit for the moment.»
Author: Mark Twain
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Humorist,
Lecturer,
Writer)
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Keywords:
any,
called,
call at,
call out,
call up,
content,
contenting,
For the,
for the moment,
in and of itself,
Itself,
material,
merely,
moment,
not for,
so-called,
spirit,
spirited,
spiriting,
spirit up,
symbol,
The Calling,
thing,
thing in itself,
want
«He that loseth wealth, loseth much; he that loseth friends, loseth more; but he that loseth his spirit loseth all»