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«Smile, it is the key that fits the lock of everybody's heart.»
«Most of us serve our ideals by fits and starts. The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.»
«The plain truth is that the reporter's trade is for young men. Your feet, which do the legwork, are nine times more important than your head, which fits the facts into a coherent pattern.»
«Suffering is by no means a privilege, a sign of nobility, a reminder of God. Suffering is a fierce, bestial thing, commonplace, uncalled for, natural as air. It is intangible; no one can grasp it or fight against it; it dwells in time / is the same thing as time; if it comes in fits and starts, that is only so as to leave the sufferer more defenseless during the moments that follow, those long moments when one relives the last bout of torture and waits for the next.»
Author: Cesare Pavese
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Critic,
Novelist,
Poet,
Translator)
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Keywords:
bestial,
bout,
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by fits and starts,
by no means,
commonplace,
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intangible,
intangibles,
nobility,
privilege,
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reminder,
reminders,
so as to,
sufferer,
sufferers,
torture,
uncalled-for,
waits
«Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for the time, leave us the weaker ever after»
«The aim of marketing is to know and understand the customer so well the product or service fits him and sells itself.»
«The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that fits all cases»
Author: Carl Gustav Jung
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Founder,
Psychologist)
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Keywords:
cases,
fits,
in one case,
one-person,
pinched,
pinches,
pinching,
recipe,
recipes,
shoe
«The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.»
«The continuance and frequent fits of anger produce in the soul a propensity to be angry; which oftentimes ends in choler, bitterness, and moronity, when the mid becomes ulcerated, peevish, and querulous, and is wounded by the least occurrence.»
Author: Henry Ward Beecher
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Keywords:
bitterness,
choler,
continuance,
continuances,
fits,
frequent,
mid,
moronity,
occurrence,
occurrences,
oftentimes,
peevish,
propensities,
propensity,
querulous,
ulcerated,
wounded
«The characteristic of genuine heroism is its persistency. All men have wandering impulses, fits and starts of generosity. But when you have resolved to be great, abide by yourself, and do not weakly try to reconcile yourself with the world. The heroic cannot be the common, nor the common the heroic.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Essayist,
Lecturer,
Poet)
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Keywords:
abide,
abide by,
by fits and starts,
fits,
generosity,
genuine,
heroic,
heroism,
impulses,
persistency,
reconcile,
resolved,
wandering,
weakly