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What is the student but a lover courting a fickle mistress who ever eludes his grasp?
William Osler
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William Osler
Canadian
Scientist
Born:
Jul 12
,
1849
Died:
Dec 29
,
1919
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Eludes
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Student
,
Mistress
,
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,
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,
Who
,
Grasp
,
Ever
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Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain.
Niccolo Machiavelli
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Don't worry about motivation. Motivation is fickle. It comes and goes. It is unreliable - and when you are counting on motivation to get your goals accomplished, you will likely fall short.
Jocko Willink
You
Goals
Will
Fall
Fickle
Worry
About
Unreliable
Counting
Likely
Motivation
Accomplished
Get
Goes
Short
Your
We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Fickle
Our
Hesitation
Puny
Folk
Following
Diseases
Avarice
Fame will go by and, so long, I've had you, fame. If it goes by, I've always known it was fickle. So at least it's something I experience, but that's not where I live.
Marilyn Monroe
You
Experience
Will
Long
Fickle
Live
Something
Had
Known
Always
Least
Go
Fame
Goes
Where
We are becoming so fickle and self involved. Always looking for the next best thing - especially when it comes to people. We spend hours buried in our phones trying to keep up with the social lives of people we may not even know. Envy and the fear of missing out have taken over. Yet we are all still longing for human connection.
Whitney Wolfe Herd
Best
Phones
People
Fear
Envy
Longing
Looking
Fickle
Our
Spend
Out
Self
Taken
Over
Missing
Hours
Know
Involved
Always
Becoming
Still
Up
Trying
May
Human
Buried
Social
Next
Connection
Even
Keep
Lives
Thing
Only when human sorrows are turned into a toy with glaring colors will baby people become interested - for a while at least. The people are a very fickle baby that must have new toys every day.
Emma Goldman
Day
Every Day
People
Will
Become
Fickle
Every
Baby
Must
Only
Colors
Glaring
New
Toy
Toys
Sorrows
Least
Very
Human
While
Interested
Turned
Human memory is short and terribly fickle.
Janine di Giovanni
Memory
Fickle
Terribly
Human
Short
For a change, lady luck seemed to be smiling on me. Then again, maybe the fickle wench was just lulling me into a false sense of security while she reached for a rock.
Timothy Zahn
Me
Change
Fickle
Sense
Luck
Security
Seemed
Reached
She
Smiling
Rock
False
False Sense
Maybe
Just
Lady
While
Again
Then
Success is fickle, but creativity is a gift.
Tommy Shaw
Success
Creativity
Gift
Fickle
Success Is
I don't speculate too much about the future. That's the thing about this job - it's so fickle. You take the jobs, you read the scripts and, if something interests you and you like the people who are working on it, you go for it.
Aidan Turner
Future
You
People
Too Much
Job
Fickle
Too
Jobs
About
Something
Take
Like
Read
Go
Go For It
Scripts
Much
Interests
Working
Who
Thing
Speculate
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