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«People everywhere enjoy believing things that they know are not true. It spares them the ordeal of thinking for themselves and taking responsibility for what they know.»
«The artist is extremely lucky who is presented with the worst possible ordeal which will not actually kill him. At that point, he's in business.»
Author: John Berryman
(Biographer, Novelist, Poet)
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extremely, ordeal, ordeals, presented
«Family dinners are more often than not an ordeal of nervous indigestion, preceded by hidden resentment and ennui and accompanied by psychosomatic jitters.»
Author: M. F. K. Fisher
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Family
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accompanied, dinners, ennui, indigestion, jitters, more often than not, nervous, ordeal, ordeals, preceded, psychosomatic, resentment
«Any ordeal that you can survive as a human being is an improvement in your character,and usually an improvement in your life.»
Author: Viggo Mortensen
(Actor, Artist, Photographer, Writer)
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human being, improvement, ordeal, ordeals, survive, usually
«Men do not fight for flag or country, for the Marine Corps or glory or any other abstraction. They fight for one another. [And] if you came through this ordeal, you would age with dignity.»
Author: William Manchester
(Historian, Novelist)
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abstraction, corps, flag, Marine, Marines, ordeal, ordeals
«Marriage is not a simple love affair, it's an ordeal, and the ordeal is the sacrifice of ego to a relationship in which two have become one»
Author: Joseph Campbell
(Author, Editor, Philosopher, Teacher)
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Marriage
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affair, ego, it An, love affair, ordeal, ordeals, The Sacrifice
«The mantra becomes one's staff of life and carries one through every ordeal. Each repetition has a new meaning, carrying you nearer and nearer to God.»
Author: Mahatma Gandhi
(Philosopher)
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carries, carrying, nearer, New Gods, ordeal, ordeals, repetition, staff, staffed, staffs, staff of life
«I am prepared to meet anyone, but whether anyone is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.»
«Cramming seeks to stamp things in by intense application immediately before the ordeal. But a thing thus learned can form but few associations.»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
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application, application form, associations, cram, crammed, cramming, crams, intense, ordeal, ordeals, stamp
«I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the ordeal of meeting me is another matter.»
Author: Winston Churchill
(Author, Orator, Prime Minister)
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Death,
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God
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maker, meeting, ordeal, ordeals, prepared, The Makers
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