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Letter "S" » steady
«Disco dancing is just the steady thump of a giant moron knocking in an endless nail.»
«Cafeteria-style education, combined with the unwillingness of our schools to place demands on students, has resulted in a steady diminishment of commonly shared information between generations and between young people themselves.»
Author: E. D. Hirsch, Jr.
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Keywords:
cafeteria,
cafeterias,
combined,
combines,
commonly,
demands,
generations,
information,
resulted,
schools,
shared,
steadies,
steady,
students,
style,
unwillingness
«God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illumined by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder, the source of which is beyond all reason.»
Author: Dag Hammarskjold
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Statesman)
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About:
Death and dying,
God
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Keywords:
beyond,
Beyond Reason,
cease,
daily,
deity,
illumine,
illumined,
illumines,
personal,
radiance,
renewed,
renewing,
renews,
source,
steadies,
steady,
The Source,
wonder
«Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, filling it with a steady and perpetual serenity»
Author: Joseph Addison
(
Dramatist,
Essayist,
Poet,
Statesman)
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About:
Cheerfulness
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Keywords:
cheerfulness,
daylight,
daylights,
filling,
in the mind,
keeps,
perpetual,
serenity,
steadies,
steady
«All experiences of life seems to prove that the impediments thrown in the way of the human advancement may for the most part be overcome by steady good conduct, honest zeal, activity, perseverance and above all, by a determined resolution to surmount»
Author: Samuel Smiles
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About:
Experience,
Life
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Keywords:
activity,
advancement,
advancements,
conduct,
determined,
for the most part,
impediments,
perseverance,
resolution,
steady,
surmount,
surmounted,
surmounting,
The Conduct of Life,
thrown,
zeal
«A friendship like love is warm; a love like friendship is steady.»
«Any act often repeated soon forms a habit; and habit allowed, steady gains in strength, At first it may be but as a spider's web, easily broken through, but if not resisted it soon binds us with chains of steel.»
«A big leather-bound volume makes an ideal razor strap. A thin book is useful to stick under a table with a broken caster to steady it. A large, flat atlas can be used to cover a window with a broken pane. And a thick, old-fashioned heavy book with a clasp is the finest thing in the world to throw at a noisy cat.»
Author: Mark Twain
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Humorist,
Lecturer,
Writer)
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Keywords:
atlas,
big cat,
caster,
clasp,
clasped,
clasps,
cover,
fashioned,
finest,
flat,
leather,
noisy,
old fashioned,
pane,
panes,
razor,
Razors,
steady,
strap,
strapped,
straps,
The Finest,
thick,
Thick and Thin,
volume
«Composition is, for the most part, an effort of slow diligence and steady perseverance, to which the mind is dragged by necessity or resolution, and from which the attention is every moment starting to more delightful amusements.»
«Gravity is the ballast of the soul which keeps the mind steady»