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«If somebody thinks they're a hedgehog, presumably you just give 'em a mirror and a few pictures of hedgehogs and tell them to sort it out for themselves.»
Author: Douglas Adams
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Writer)
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Keywords:
a few,
few,
hedgehog,
hedgehogs,
mirror,
My picture,
pictured,
pictures,
Picture It,
picturing,
presumably,
somebody,
sort,
sorted,
sorting,
sort out,
themselves,
thinks
«Even the wisest men make fools of themselves about women, and even the most foolish women are wise about men»
«How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on»
Author: Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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Author,
Pilot,
Writer)
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Keywords:
drops,
drop by,
drop in,
drop out,
flowed,
flows,
flow out,
river,
River The,
themselves,
The River,
water,
yet
«Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.»
«Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves.»
«It all depends on how we look at things, and not on how they are themselves»
«Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.»
Author: Dale Carnegie
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About:
Doing Your Best,
Jobs
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Keywords:
afraid,
big,
big time,
care,
Care of,
conquer,
jobbing,
jobs,
ones,
on the job,
seemingly,
small,
stronger,
take care,
tend,
tended,
tended to,
tending,
that much,
themselves,
the Big,
well
«All great things must first wear terrifying and monstrous masks in order to inscribe themselves on the hearts of humanity.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
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Critic,
Philosopher,
Scholar)
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Keywords:
hearts,
Hearts of,
humanities,
humanity,
inscribe,
In Humanity,
in order,
masked,
masking,
masks,
monstrous,
order,
terrifies,
terrify,
terrifying,
themselves,
wear,
wear on
«In religion and politics people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue but have taken them at second-hand from other»
Author: Mark Twain
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Humorist,
Lecturer,
Writer)
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Keywords:
almost,
at issue,
authorities,
beliefs,
By belief,
case,
cased,
convictions,
examination,
examined,
examines,
gotten,
hand,
have-not,
his case,
issue,
issuing,
politics,
questions,
religion,
second,
seconded,
second hand,
taken,
take issue,
themselves
«It is a curious fact that people are never so trivial as when they take themselves seriously.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
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Critic,
Dramatist,
Novelist,
Poet)
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About:
Humor,
Seriousness
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Keywords:
are,
curious,
fact,
is a,
never,
people,
peopled,
seriously,
take,
taken over,
taking over,
that,
themselves,
they,
trivial,
when