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Letter "T" » The Stand
«What you see and hear depends a good deal on where you are standing; it also depends on what kind of a person you are»
Author: C.S. Lewis
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Novelist,
Scholar)
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Keywords:
also,
a good deal,
deal,
dealt out,
deal out,
depends,
good,
good deal,
hear,
How To Deal,
in kind,
kind,
kindest,
kind of,
Our Kind,
person,
see,
standing,
standings,
stand out,
The Deal,
The Stand,
where
«The individual increasingly comes to know who he is through the stand he takes when he expresses his ideas, values, beliefs, and convictions, and through the declaration and ownership of his feelings»
«How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(
Essayist,
Philosopher,
Poet)
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Keywords:
down,
downed,
Down in It,
Down Under,
Down With Me,
have-not,
sit,
sit by,
sit down,
stand out,
stood,
take down,
The Stand,
To Live,
up to,
vain,
write
«Playing safe is probably the most unsafe thing in the world. You cannot stand still. You must go forward.»
Author: Robert Collier
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Keywords:
come forward,
forward,
forwarding,
forwards,
go,
go forward,
in play,
most,
must,
played out,
playing,
play out,
play up,
probably,
safe,
safes,
stand,
stand out,
stand still,
still,
stilled,
stiller,
stillest,
stilling,
stills,
The Forward,
The Stand,
the world,
thing,
unsafe,
world
«The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(
Physicist)
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Keywords:
art,
as good as,
As Good as Dead,
awe,
awed,
awes,
beautiful,
Beautiful Thing,
before long,
Best Art,
can,
closed,
close in,
close up,
come close,
dead,
Dead Things,
emotion,
experience,
eyeing,
eyes,
Eye for an eye,
good,
His,
in awe of,
In My Eyes,
is a,
longer,
most,
mysterious,
no.,
no,
no longer,
pause,
paused,
pausing,
rapt,
science,
see eye to eye,
source,
stand,
stand out,
stranger,
The Source,
The Stand,
thing,
this,
this art,
true,
wonder
«Stand still. The trees ahead and bush beside you are not lost.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(
Physicist)
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Keywords:
ahead,
bush,
bushes,
lost,
stand,
stand out,
stand still,
still,
stilled,
stiller,
stillest,
stilling,
stills,
The Stand,
trees
«As a lotus flower is born in water, grows in water and rises out of water to stand above it unsoiled, so I, born in the world, raised in the world having overcome the world, live unsoiled by the world»
Author: Buddha
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Keywords:
above,
Born,
flower,
flowered,
grows,
Having,
live,
lotus,
lotus flower,
make water,
out,
overcame,
overcome,
raised,
rises,
So I,
stand,
stand out,
take water,
The Stand,
the world,
unsoiled,
water,
world
«Software is usually accompanied by documentation in the form of big fat scary manuals that nobody ever reads. In fact, for the past five years most of the manuals shipped with software products have actually been copies of Stephen King's The Stand with new covers pasted on.»
Author: Dave Barry
(
Humorist,
Writer)
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About:
Software
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Keywords:
accompanied,
copies,
covers,
documentation,
manuals,
paste,
pasted,
products,
reads,
scary,
shipped,
software,
The Manual,
The Stand
«When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(
Critic,
Philosopher,
Scholar)
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Keywords:
another,
a hundred,
each,
gets,
His,
hundred,
loses,
men,
mind,
of one mind,
stand,
stand out,
Them,
The Stand,
together
«When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.»
Author: Mark Twain
(
Humorist,
Lecturer,
Writer)
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About:
Life
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Keywords:
disappear,
disappearing,
explained,
like mad,
mad,
madder,
maddest,
mysteries,
remember,
stands,
stand out,
The Stand