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«Men say they love independence in a woman, but they don't waste a second demolishing it brick by brick.»
Author: Candice Bergen
(Actress)
| About:
Men and Women
| Keywords:
brick, brick in, demolish, demolished, demolishes, demolishing, independence, second, The Brick, waste
«Scientists tell us that the fastest animal on earth, with a top speed of 120 feet per second, is a cow that has been dropped out of a helicopter.»
Author: Dave Barry
(Humorist, Writer)
| About:
Funny
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animal, cow, cowed, dropped, drop by, fastest, feet, has-been, helicopter, helicopters, on earth, PER, scientists, second, sped, speed, speeded, speeded up, speeds, speed up, The Scientists, top
«Life is the first gift, love is the second, and understanding the third»
Author: Marge Piercy
| About:
Gifts,
Life,
Love,
Understanding
| Keywords:
gift, second, Second Life, the first, The Second, The Third, third, Third Way, understanding, understandings
«I have always believed that writing advertisements is the second most profitable form of writing. The first, of course, is ransom notes...»
Author: Philip Dusenberry
| About:
Advertising,
Writing
| Keywords:
advertisements, believed, course, form, notes, noting, of course, profitable, ransom, ransomed, second, take note, The Second, writing
«Remember the two benefits of failure. First, if you do fail, you learn what doesn't work; and second, the failure gives you the opportunity to try a new approach.»
Author: Roger Von Oech
| About:
Failure
| Keywords:
approach, benefits, fail, gives, give it a try, opportunity, second
«I have always found that the man whose second thoughts are good is worth watching.»
Author: James Matthew Barrie
(Dramatist, Novelist)
| Keywords:
found, second, second thought, Second Thoughts, The Man, thoughts, watching, worth
«Let thy child's first lesson be obedience, and the second may be what thou wilt.»
«There are five things which no one is able to accomplish in this world: first, to cease growing old when he is growing old; second, to cease being sick; third, to cease dying; fourth, to deny dissolution when there is dissolution; fifth, to deny non-being.»
Author: Buddha
| Keywords:
able, accomplish, cease, deny, dissolution, dying, fifth, fifths, First Ones, First to, First world, five, fourth, growing, in this, In this World, non, second, second world, sick, sicker, sickest, third, Third Way, Third World
«Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose.»
Author: Carl Gustav Jung
(Founder, Psychologist)
| Keywords:
abnormal, half, Half a Life, half life, purpose, robs, second, second half, Second Life, shrank, shrinking, shrinks, shrink from, shrunk, The Second, unhealthy
«Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
consist, making, mistakes, second, second time
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