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«Seeking happiness is a straight way to misery.»
«Stand straight, walk proud, have a little faith»
«People create their own questions because they are afraid to look straight. All you have to do is look straight and see the road, and when you see it, don't sit looking at it- walk.»
«Our paradigm now seems to be: Something terrible happened to us on September 11, and that gives us the right to interpret all future events in a way that everyone else in the world must agree with us. And if they don't, they can go straight to hell.»
Author: Bill Clinton
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President)
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Keywords:
agree,
events,
everyone else,
interpret,
in a way,
paradigm,
paradigms,
September,
September 11,
straight,
terrible
«Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.»
Author: Helen Keller
(
Author,
Educator)
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Keywords:
bend,
eye,
Eyes of the World,
Eye of the World,
head,
high,
highs,
hold,
look,
straight,
straighter,
The Bends,
The Eye
«No one was ever lost on a straight road.»
«Mathematics would certainly have not come into existence if one had known from the beginning that there was in nature no exactly straight line, no actual circle, no absolute magnitude.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(
Critic,
Philosopher,
Scholar)
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Keywords:
absolute,
absolutes,
absolute magnitude,
actual,
certainly,
circle,
come into,
exactly,
existence,
have-not,
in a circle,
known,
line,
one line,
straight,
straight line,
There was,
The Beginning
«Progress has not followed a straight ascending line, but a spiral with rhythms of progress and retrogression, of evolution and dissolution.»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(
Dramatist,
Novelist,
Playwright,
Poet)
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Keywords:
ascending,
ascends,
dissolution,
evolution,
followed,
line,
progress,
retrogression,
rhythms,
rhythm and,
spiral,
spiraling,
spirals,
straight
«That's the interesting thing about becoming a father. Suddenly you universally have something in common with other people. I can be sitting next to a very straight, humorless businessman or stockbroker type on an airplane and we'll just start talking about kids. And that conversation last three or four hours.»
Author: Johnny Depp
(
Actor)
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Keywords:
airplane,
Airplanes,
businessman,
common interest,
conversation,
Father,
hours,
humorless,
interesting,
in common,
kids,
sitting,
straight,
suddenly,
talking,
type,
universally
«Man is the religious animal. He is the only religious animal. He is the only animal that has the True Religion ?- several of them. He is the only animal that loves his neighbor as himself and cuts his throat, if his theology isn't straight. He has made a graveyard of the globe in trying his honest best to smooth his brother's path to happiness and heaven.»
Author: Mark Twain
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Humorist,
Lecturer,
Writer)
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Keywords:
animal,
brother,
cuts,
globe,
globes,
Globe and,
Good Neighbors,
graveyard,
graveyards,
his brother,
neighbor,
several,
smooth,
straight,
theologies,
theology,
The Globe,
The Good Neighbor,
throat,
tried and true