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«Life lived amidst tension and busyness needs leisure. Leisure that recreates and renews. Leisure should be a time to think new thoughts, not ponder old ills.»
Author: C. Neil Strait
| Keywords:
busyness, ills, leisure time, ponder, re-create, re-created, recreate, recreates, recreating, renews, tension
«Talk about your plenty, talk about your ills, One man gathers what another man spills»
«Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all.»
Author: John W. Gardner
(Secretary, Writer)
| About:
Politics
| Keywords:
conviction, diagnoses, diagnosis, excessively, extremism, identifiable, ills, ingredients, involves, prime, primed, villains
«No illusion is more crucial than the illusion that great success and huge money buy you immunity from the common ills of mankind, such as cars that won't start.»
«There is something ridiculous and even quite indecent in an individual claiming to be happy. Still more a people or a nation making such a claim. The pursuit of happiness... is without any question the most fatuous which could possibly be undertaken. This lamentable phrase ''the pursuit of happiness'' is responsible for a good part of the ills and miseries of the modern world.»
Author: Malcolm Muggeridge
| Keywords:
a people, claiming, fatuous, good part, ills, indecent, lamentable, miseries, modern world, phrase, The Pursuit of Happiness, undertaken
«No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.»
Author: P. J. O'Rourke
(Humorist, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
alcohol, drug, drugs, fundamental, greed, ills, The Source, troubles
«There are two fools in this world. One is the millionaire who thinks that by hoarding money he can somehow accumulate real power, and the other is the penniless reformer who thinks that if only he can take the money from one class and give it to another, all the world's ills will be cured.»
Author: Henry Ford
| Keywords:
accumulate, accumulating, class, cured, hoard, hoarded, hoarding, hoards, ills, millionaire, penniless, reformer, somehow
«Mind is the Master/power that molds and makes, and Man is Mind, and ever more he takes the Tool of Thought, and shaping what he wills, brings forth a thousand joys, a thousand ills/He thinks in secret and it comes to pass; Environment is but his looking-glass.»
Author: James Allen
(Statesman)
| Keywords:
ills, in secret, looking glass, molds, shaping, the Master, wills
«Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills. We feel a thousand miseries till we are lucky enough to feel misery.»
«Ten thousand harms, more than the ills I know, My idleness doth hatch»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
harms, hatch, hatches, hatching, idleness, ills, ten thousand
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