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«A committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled.»
Author: Barnett Cocks
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«The practical success of an idea, irrespective of its inherent merit, is dependent on the attitude of the contemporaries. If timely it is quickly adopted; if not, it is apt to fare like a sprout lured out of the ground by warm sunshine, only to be injured and retarded in its growth by the succeeding frost.»
Author: Nikola Tesla
(Engineer, Inventor)
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«In time the savage bull sustains the yoke, / In time all haggard hawks will stoop to lure. / In time small wedges cleave the hardest oak, / In time the flint is pierced with softest shower.»
«Photography is a small voice, at best, but sometimes one photograph, or a group of them, can lure our sense of awareness.»
Author: W. Eugene Smith
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Photography
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«. . . each day mankind and the claims of mankind slipped farther from him. Deep in the forest a call was sounding, and as often as he heard this call, mysteriously thrilling and luring, he felt compelled to turn his back upon the fire and the beaten earth around it, and to plunge into the forest, and on and on, he knew not where or why; nor did he wonder where or why, the call sounding imperiously, deep in the forest.»
Author: Jack London
(Novelist, Writer)
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«I remember my youth and the feeling that will never come back any more /the feeling that I could last for ever, outlast the sea, the earth, and all men; the deceitful feeling that lures us on to joys, to perils, to love, to vain effort /to death; the triumphant conviction of strength, the heat of life in the handful of dust, the glow in the heart that with every year grows dim, grows cold, grows small, and expires /and expires, too soon, too soon /before life itself.»
Author: Joseph Conrad
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«It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.»
«One should neither speak nor listen to anything that is evil or bad. There is always a danger of him being lured by the sinful path because the way man acts depends totally upon the way he thinks. »
«Gazing upon their families, people are lured and trapped by emotional attachment, but none will go along with them in the end. Serving the True Guru, one finds the Lord, the Treasure of Excellence.»
Author: Sri Guru Granth Sahib
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«The soul of the man is lured by gold and women; emotional attachment to Maya is so sweet to him.»
Author: Sri Guru Granth Sahib
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