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I am not the first Buddha who came upon Earth, nor shall I be the last. In due time, another Buddha will arise in the world - a Holy One, a supremely enlightened One, endowed with wisdom in conduct, auspicious, knowing the universe, an incomparable leader of men, a master of angels and mortals.
Buddha
Wisdom
Time
World
Will
Men
Leader
First
Master
Universe
Earth
Angels
Shall
Arise
Buddha
Mortals
Knowing
Supremely
Another
Am
Due
Came
Nor
Conduct
Endowed
Holy
Who
Incomparable
Enlightened
Last
Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!
Leonardo da Vinci
Ignorance
Open Your Eyes
Eyes
Wretched
Open
Mislead
Mortals
Blinding
Does
Us
Your
I could feel his muscle tissues collapse under my force. It's ludicrous these mortals even attempt to enter my realm.
Mike Tyson
Collapse
Enter
Could
Attempt
Mortals
Feel
Force
His
Realm
Even
Ludicrous
Muscle
My friends, whoever has had experience of evils knows how whenever a flood of ills comes upon mortals, a man fears everything; but whenever a divine force cheers on our voyage, then we believe that the same fate will always blow fair.
Aeschylus
Man
Experience
Fate
Will
Fears
Believe
Our
Everything
Evils
Divine
Had
Mortals
Fair
Force
Voyage
Cheers
Knows
Always
How
Friends
Blow
Same
Whenever
Then
Whoever
Ills
Flood
A man would always wish to give a woman a better home than the one he takes her from; and he who can do it, where there is no doubt of her regard, must, I think, be the happiest of mortals.
Jane Austen
Home
Man
Woman
Better
Wish
Doubt
Think
Must
Would
No Doubt
Give
He
Takes
Mortals
Always
Than
Where
Regard
Happiest
Who
Her
There's a certain pattern that exists with geniuses - an eccentricity, a lack of social graces and an inability to really communicate with mere mortals.
John Noble
Communicate
Eccentricity
Mere
Mortals
Geniuses
Exists
Graces
Lack
Inability
Pattern
Social
Really
Certain
To the poet fated to be a poet, self-expression is as natural and as involuntary as breathing is to us ordinary mortals.
Octavio Paz
Natural
Poet
Mortals
Involuntary
Self-Expression
Ordinary
Breathing
Us
Fated
The fact that something is actually understandable and relatable doesn't mean that it's unsophisticated or banal. It just means that it's crystal-clear. And if you can't explain it, that doesn't necessarily mean it's so brilliant that ordinary mortals can't fathom it. It might just mean that it makes no sense.
Bjarke Ingels
You
Brilliant
Sense
Fathom
Something
Fact
No Sense
Mortals
Makes
Understandable
Banal
Just
Ordinary
Explain
Mean
Might
Means
Actually
Necessarily
As mortals, we're ruled by conditions, not by ourselves.
Bodhidharma
Ruled
Ourselves
Mortals
Conditions
People who know math understand what other mortals understand, but other mortals do not understand them. This asymmetry gives them a presumption of superior ability.
Daniel Kahneman
People
Superior
Other
Presumption
Ability
Gives
Mortals
Know
Understand
Math
Them
Who
Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.
Euripides
Thoughts
Mortals
Wisest
Among
Second
Only the more rugged mortals should attempt to keep up with current literature.
George Ade
Rugged
More
Only
Attempt
Mortals
Up
Current
Literature
Should
Keep
Scarcely anyone ever wants to be anybody else. However handicapped or unhappy he feels himself, he would not change places with other more fortunate mortals.
Gordon W. Allport
Change
Unhappy
Other
Else
Would
Scarcely
More
He
Mortals
Feels
Himself
However
Handicapped
Anybody
Anybody Else
Anyone
Wants
Places
Fortunate
Ever
Can't step from one movie set to the next. Only Samuel L. Jackson can do that. All us mere mortals can't do that!
Ice Cube
Only
Step
Mere
Mortals
Jackson
Movie
Samuel
Movie Set
Us
Next
Set
At the close of the day when the hamlet is still, and mortals the sweets of forgetfulness prove, when naught but the torrent is heard on the hill, and naught but the nightingale's song in the grove.
James Beattie
Day
Song
Torrent
Mortals
Hill
Still
Prove
Hamlet
Heard
Close
Forgetfulness
Sweets
Naught
Grove
Some literary types subscribe to the notion that being a writer like Salinger entitles a person to remain free of the standards that might apply to mere mortals.
Joyce Maynard
Free
Subscribe
Types
Some
Remain
Writer
Mere
Mortals
Like
Salinger
Person
Being
Literary
Might
Notion
Standards
Apply
Weight, force and casual impulse, together with resistance, are the four external powers in which all the visible actions of mortals have their being and their end.
Leonardo da Vinci
Together
Visible
Casual
Weight
Mortals
Powers
Force
End
Impulse
Being
Which
Actions
Four
Resistance
External
Beauty is aspirational - an ideal that mortals approach but seldom attain.
Lionel Shriver
Beauty
Approach
Seldom
Attain
Mortals
Ideal
Who could look on these monuments without reflecting on the vanity of mortals in thus offering up testimonials of their respect for persons of whose very names posterity is ignorant?
Marguerite Gardiner
Respect
Monuments
Posterity
Vanity
Could
Mortals
Thus
Names
Look
Without
Testimonial
Up
Reflecting
Very
Offering
Persons
Ignorant
Who
Whose
We decided that how we react to and treat those fellow mortals, wild and domestic, tells us more about ourselves than, perhaps, some of us want to know.
Nick Clooney
Treat
Wild
Those
Ourselves
Tells
Some
About
More
Mortals
Perhaps
Know
React
Fellow
How
Domestic
Than
Want
Decided
Us
It is always edifying for mortals to look at a god.
Paul Horgan
God
Mortals
Look
Always
Watergate got us to think of leaders as mere mortals. America began to think of itself in a very different way - I would say a salutary way - and Reagan was most important in shifting the grand dynamic thrust of the American historical process by ending that.
Rick Perlstein
Watergate
Ending
Important
Shifting
Think
Way
Say
Would
Thrust
Leaders
Mere
Mortals
Most
Got
Reagan
Historical
Began
Itself
Very
Salutary
America
American
Different
Dynamic
Process
Grand
Us
Different Way
Reverence does not die with mortals, nor does it perish whether they live or die.
Sophocles
Live
Mortals
Perish
Does
Reverence
Nor
Die
Whether
Those whose life is long still strive for gain, and for all mortals all things take second place to money.
Sophocles
Life
Money
Long
Those
Strive
All Things
Take
Mortals
Still
Gain
Place
Whose
Things
Second
Second Place
A novelist is, like all mortals, more fully at home on the surface of the present than in the ooze of the past.
Vladimir Nabokov
Home
Past
More
Mortals
Like
Surface
Than
Fully
Novelist
Present
There is one God - supreme among gods and men - who is like mortals in neither body nor mind.
Xenophanes
God
Mind
Men
Neither
Mortals
Like
Supreme
Nor
Gods
Body
Who
Among
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