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«Uncertainty and mystery are energies of life. Don't let them scare you unduly, for they keep boredom at bay and spark creativity.»
Author: R. I. Fitzhenry
| About:
Boredom,
Creativity,
Life,
Mystery,
Uncertainty
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at bay, bay, bayed, baying, bays, Bay of, boredom, energies, mystery, scare, spark, The Bay, uncertainty, unduly
«These are days when no one should rely unduly on his competence. Strength lies in improvisation. All the decisive blows are struck left-handed.»
Author: Walter Benjamin
(Essayist, Theologian, Writer)
| Keywords:
blows, decisive, handed, improvisation, left handed, rely, struck, unduly
«JEALOUS, adj. Unduly concerned about the preservation of that which can be lost only if not worth keeping.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
adj, concerned, if not, jealous, keeping, only if, preservation, unduly
«Once the visitor was told rather repetitively that this city was the melting pot; never before in history had so many people of such varied languages, customs, colors and culinary habits lived so amicably together. Although New York remains peaceful by most standards, this self-congratulation is now less often heard, since it was discovered some years ago that racial harmony depended unduly on the willingness of the blacks (and latterly the Puerto Ricans) to do for the other races the meanest jobs at the lowest wages and then to return to live by themselves in the worst slums.»
Author: John Kenneth Galbraith
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amicably, Black race, congratulation, culinary, customs, depended, languages, latterly, meanest, melting pot, Puerto, Puerto Rican, races, racial, repetitively, slum, slums, The Blacks, unduly, varied, visitor, wages, willingness
«I would not unduly praise the virtue of restraint. It is often merely temperamental. But it is not always a sign of coldness. It may be pride. There can be nothing more humiliating than to see the shaft of one's emotion miss the mark of either laughter or tears. Nothing more humiliating! And this for the reason that should the mark be missed, should the open display of emotion fail to move, then it must perish unavoidably in disgust or contempt.»
Author: Joseph Conrad
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coldness, disgust, display, humiliated, humiliating, missed, restraint, shaft, shafting, shafts, temperamental, The Mark of, unavoidably, unduly
«Beware of one who flatters unduly; he will also censure unjustly»
Author: Arabian Proverb
| Keywords:
unduly
«I believe that more unhappiness comes from this source than from any other - I mean from the attempt to prolong family connections unduly and to make people hang together artificially who would never naturally do so.»
Author: Samuel Butler
| Keywords:
artificially, connections, hang together, prolong, unduly, unhappiness
«If our soldiers are not overburdened with money, it is not because they have a distaste for riches; if their lives are not unduly long, it is not because they are disinclined to longevity.»
Author: Sun Tzu
(Author, General)
| Keywords:
disinclined, distaste, longevity, overburden, overburdened, riches, soldiers, unduly
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