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Basically, at the very bottom of life, which seduces us all, there is only absurdity, and more absurdity. And maybe that's what gives us our joy for living, because the only thing that can defeat absurdity is lucidity.
Albert Camus
Life
Joy
Living
Defeat
Our
More
Only
Gives
Bottom
Absurdity
Because
Very
Maybe
The Only Thing
Which
Us
Thing
Basically
Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.
Albert Einstein
Great
Character
Science
People
Say
People Say
Wrong
Most
Makes
Scientist
Intellect
Which
There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable; for in politics there is no honour.
Benjamin Disraeli
Politics
Political
Party
Honour
Political Party
Which
Capable
Meanness
Act
Treachery
But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its effect is not to be done away with.
George Eliot
Feeling
Other
Intimacy
Once
Embarrassment
Mutual
Something
Having
Feels
Existed
Effect
Done
Which
Each
Away
A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.
Marcus Aurelius
Man
Ambition
Other
Way
Higher
Noble
Idea
Himself
Vulgar
Than
Estimates
Which
Mean
Lower
Produces
Aspiration
Compares
Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot be any other virtue except in mere appearance.
Saint Augustine
Soul
Other
Humility
Virtue
Virtues
Except
Mere
Does
Exist
Any
Cannot
Which
Appearance
Hence
Foundation
If you want to be a real human being - a real woman, a real man - you cannot tolerate things which put you to indignation, to outrage. You must stand up. I always say to people, 'Look around; look at what makes you unhappy, what makes you furious, and then engage yourself in some action.'
Stephane Hessel
You
Man
Woman
Yourself
People
Human Being
Unhappy
Action
Furious
Say
Must
Some
Indignation
Outrage
Put
Look
Around
Makes
Always
Real
Real Human
Up
Real Man
Human
Being
Want
Cannot
Which
Then
Engage
Stand
Stand Up
Tolerate
Things
Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.
Abraham Lincoln
Hope
Government
Freedom
People
World
Suits
Better
Liberate
Valuable
Power
Believe
Rise
Shake
Having
Sacred
New
Most
New One
Existing
Off
Up
Any
Being
Form
Which
Anywhere
Them
Inclined
Right
I do not believe there is a problem in this country or the world today which could not be settled if approached through the teaching of the Sermon on the Mount.
Harry S Truman
Today
Teacher
Problem
World
Country
Believe
Settled
Could
Through
Mount
Which
Teaching
Sermon
Donald Trump does not touch alcohol, which is really respectable. But think about that. That means every statement, every interview, every tweet - completely sober.
Hasan Minhaj
Every
Think
Alcohol
Interview
Respectable
Statement
About
Touch
Does
Trump
Donald
Donald Trump
Which
Sober
Really
Means
Tweet
The love of a dog is a pure thing. He gives you a trust which is total. You must not betray it.
Michel Houellebecq
Love
You
Trust
Dog
Pure
Must
Total
Betray
Gives
He
Which
Thing
That which the Fascists hate above all else, is intelligence.
Miguel de Unamuno
Hate
Intelligence
Else
Above
Which
Fascists
In the US, there is basically one party - the business party. It has two factions, called Democrats and Republicans, which are somewhat different but carry out variations on the same policies. By and large, I am opposed to those policies. As is most of the population.
Noam Chomsky
Business
Party
Those
Out
Carry
One Party
Variations
Somewhat
Factions
Most
Policies
Democrats
Democrats And Republicans
Am
Opposed
Same
Different
Which
Republicans
Us
Large
Population
Basically
Two
That which God said to the rose, and caused it to laugh in full-blown beauty, He said to my heart, and made it a hundred times more beautiful.
Rumi
Beautiful
God
Heart
Made
Beauty
Rose
Hundred
Hundred Times
Laugh
More
He
Said
Caused
Times
Which
Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.
Thomas Jefferson
Man
Animal
Experience
Own
Rich
Kind
General
Only
Prey
Term
Demands
His
Which
Poor
Apply
There is in every true woman's heart, a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.
Washington Irving
Adversity
Woman
Heart
Dark
Prosperity
Fire
Every
Broad
Lies
True
Daylight
Hour
Up
Heavenly
Which
Dormant
Spark
Earth teach me to forget myself as melted snow forgets its life. Earth teach me resignation as the leaves which die in the fall. Earth teach me courage as the tree which stands all alone. Earth teach me regeneration as the seed which rises in the spring.
William Alexander
Life
Alone
Myself
Me
Courage
Spring
Fall
Tree
Earth
Melted
Seed
Rises
Leaves
Forget
Snow
Die
Forgets
Regeneration
Which
Teach
Stands
Resignation
Every man lives in two realms: the internal and the external. The internal is that realm of spiritual ends expressed in art, literature, morals, and religion. The external is that complex of devices, techniques, mechanisms, and instrumentalities by means of which we live.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Art
Religion
Spiritual
Man
Live
Every
Complex
Morals
Devices
Man Lives
Ends
Literature
Which
Realm
Means
Internal
Mechanisms
Expressed
Lives
Techniques
Every Man
External
Two
Most people are willing to take the Sermon on the Mount as a flag to sail under, but few will use it as a rudder by which to steer.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
People
Will
Sail
Few
Rudder
Willing
Steer
Take
Most
Mount
Flag
Which
Use
Sermon
The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes.
Aristotle
Class
Political
Control
Community
Other
Classes
Both
Perfect
Most
Middle
Middle Class
Which
Opinion is like a pendulum and obeys the same law. If it goes past the centre of gravity on one side, it must go a like distance on the other; and it is only after a certain time that it finds the true point at which it can remain at rest.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Time
Law
Rest
Past
Other
Side
Distance
Pendulum
Must
Finds
Only
Remain
Point
True
Like
Opinion
Go
Same
Goes
After
Which
Centre
Certain
Gravity
Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.
Benjamin Franklin
Today
You
Tomorrow
Never
Till
Leave
Which
No one should suffer from the great delusion that any form of communism or socialism which promotes the dictatorship of the few instead of the initiative of the millions can produce a happier or more prosperous society.
Charles E. Wilson
Great
Communism
Socialism
Dictatorship
Few
Society
More
No-One
Delusion
Instead
Prosperous
Any
Form
Happier
Which
Produce
Should
Initiative
Suffer
Millions
Too many Christians have a commitment of convenience. They'll stay faithful as long as it's safe and doesn't involve risk, rejection, or criticism. Instead of standing alone in the face of challenge or temptation, they check to see which way their friends are going.
Charles Stanley
Alone
Commitment
Challenge
Criticism
Face
Long
Faithful
Rejection
Too
Way
Stay
See
Temptation
Risk
Instead
Check
Involve
Safe
Friends
Going
Convenience
Which
Standing
Standing Alone
Many
Christians
There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened.
Douglas Adams
Will
Universe
States
Bizarre
Exactly
Exactly What
Something
More
Disappear
Instantly
Another
Inexplicable
Discovers
Replaced
Anyone
Happened
Which
Theory
Even
Why
Ever
Here
The greatest humiliation in life, is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get it.
E. W. Howe
Life
Work
Great
You
Appreciation
Work Hard
Humiliation
Something
Fail
Greatest
Expect
Get
Which
Then
Hard
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