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«Some people, in working towards a goal, find themselves seized by inertia when it comes time for action. If this should happen to you, despite the small graduated steps, then it is time to re examine your goal. Consider how important it actually is and then either discard the goal and replace it with more suitable one or continue the steps with a renewed sense of the value of achieving it.»
Author: Fitzhugh Dodson
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achieving, despite, discard, examine, graduated, graduating, inertia, re-examine, renewed, replace, seized, suitable
«The only way out is the way through, just as you cannot escape from death except by dying. Being unable to write, you must examine in writing this being unable, which becomes for the present - henceforth? - the subject to which you are condemned.»
Author: Howard Nemerov
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condemned, condemned to death, escape from, examine, henceforth, in writing, subject to, way out
«The mere attempt to examine my own confusion would consume volumes.»
«The work of an intellectual is not to mould the political will of others; it is, through the analyses that he does in his own field, to re-examine evidence and assumptions, to shake up habitual ways of working and thinking, to dissipate conventional familiarities, to re-evaluate rules and institutions and to participate in the formation of a political will (where he has his role as citizen to play).»
Author: Michel Foucault
(Historian, Philosopher, Scholar)
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analyses, assumptions, conventional, dissipate, dissipated, dissipates, dissipating, evaluate, evaluated, examine, formation, formations, habitual, institutions, mould, participate, playing field, political institutions, re-examine, shake up
«We need quiet time to examine our lives openly and honestly. . . spending quiet time alone gives your mind an opportunity to renew itself and create order.»
Author: Susan Taylor
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examine, honestly, openly, quiet, Quiet Life, renew, renewing, renews, spending
«This is what you shall do: love the earth and sun, and animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence towards the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown, or to any man or number of men; go freely with the powerful uneducated persons, and with the young, and mothers, of families: read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life: re-examine all you have been told at school or church, or in any books, and dismiss whatever insults your soul.»
Author: Walt Whitman
(Poet)
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air, alms, animals, argue, asks, church, church school, concerning, despise, devote, dismiss, dismissed, dismisses, dismissing, every year, examine, families, family man, freely, give off, hat, income, indulgence, indulgences, insults, mothers, mother church, mother Earth, One Family, open air, Open Season, persons, re-examine, riches, school, school year, season, stand up, stupid person, take off, The Re, tyrants, uneducated, uneducated person, unknown
«To understand the true quality of people, you must look into their minds, and examine their pursuits and aversions.»
«Statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing falsities, and will diligently study them, and refuse to examine any refutations of them; and thus he will by an»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
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diligently, examine, falsities, falsity, refutation, refutations
«The business of a poet, said Imlac, is to examine, not the individual but the species; to remark general properties and large appearances. He does not number the streaks of the tulip.»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
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appearances, examine, number the, remark, streak, streaked, streaks, tulip, tulips
«The more I examine Christianity, the more I am struck with its universality. I see in it a religion made for all regions and all times, for all classes and all stages of society.»
Author: William Ellery Channing
(Author, Clergyman)
| Keywords:
classes, examine, regions, stages, struck, universality
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