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«Every great work, every great accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement comes apparent failure and discouragement»
Author: Florence Scovel Shinn
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accomplishment, apparent, discouragement, manifestation, the Big, The Vision
«Creativity represents a miraculous coming together of the uninhibited energy of the child with its apparent opposite and enemy, the sense of order imposed on the disciplined adult intelligence.»
Author: Norman Podhoretz
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Creativity
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adult intelligence, apparent, coming together, disciplined, imposed, miraculous, represents, uninhibited
«I'm the heir apparent to the heir presumptive.»
«Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.»
Author: Douglas Adams
(Writer)
| About:
Learning,
Mankind
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almost, apparent, beings, disinclination, human beings, remarkable, unique
«All human errors are impatience, a premature breaking off of methodical procedure, an apparent fencing-in of what is apparently at issue.»
Author: Franz Kafka
(Writer)
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apparent, apparently, at issue, breaking, breaking off, break off, fencing, human error, impatience, issue, premature, procedure, procedures
«A narrative is like a room on whose walls a number of false doors have been painted; while within the narrative, we have many apparent choices of exit, but when the author leads us to one particular door, we know it is the right one because it opens.»
Author: John Updike
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apparent, exit, exited, exits, narrative, narratives, painted, The Author
«Has the great art and mystery of politics no apparent utility? Does it appear to be unqualifiedly ratty, raffish, sordid, obscene and low down, and its salient virtuosi a gang of umitigated scoundrels? Then let us not forget its high capacity to soo»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
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apparent, low-down, obscene, raffish, ratty, salient, scoundrels, unqualifiedly, utility, virtuosi, virtuoso
«As I give thought to the matter, I find four causes for the apparent misery of old age; first it withdraws us from active accomplishments; second, it renders the body less powerful; third, it deprives us of almost all forms of enjoyment; fourth, it»
Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero
(Lawyer, Orator, Scholar, Statesman, Writer)
| About:
Misery,
Past
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accomplishments, almost all, apparent, deprives, enjoyment, fourth, renders, Second Thoughts, the matter, withdraws
«Certain souls seem hard because they are capable of strong feelings, and they sometimes go to rather extreme lengths; their apparent unconcern and cruelty are but ways, known only to themselves, of feeling more strongly than others.»
«Every man is prompted by the love of himself to imagine that he possesses some qualities, superior, either in kind or degree, to those which he sees allotted to the rest of the world; and, whatever apparent disadvantages he may suffer in the comparis»
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