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sublime
From sublime to ridiculousness there is only one step. Napoleon Bonaparte
sublime alternatives lessons
Sublime places repeat in grand terms a lesson that ordinary life typically teaches viciously: that the universe is mightier than we are, that we are frail and temporary and have no alternative but to accept limitations on our will; that we must bow to necessities greater than ourselves. Alain de Botton
sublime realization world
True, when you behold Damascus from the Salahiyeh, the last slope of the Anti-Lebanon, it is the realization of all that you have dreamed of Oriental splendor; the world has no picture more dazzling. It is Beauty carried to the Sublime, as I have felt when overlooking some boundless forest of palms within the tropics. Bayard Taylor
sublime use way
The true Way is sublime. It can't be expressed in language. Of what use are scriptures? But someone who sees his own nature finds the Way, even if he can't read a word. Bodhidharma
sublime infinity source
One source of the sublime is infinity. Edmund Burke
sublime sorrow christianity
Christianity has made martyrdom sublime, and sorrow triumphant. Edwin Hubbel Chapin
sublime events wonderful
What wonderful things are events! The least are of greater importance than the most sublime and comprehensive speculations. Benjamin Disraeli
sublime tiny spirit
Sometimes I feel quite distinctly that what is inside me is not all of me. There is something else, sublime, quite indestructible, some tiny fragment of the Universal spirit.Don't you feel that? Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
sublime half world
To make this trivial world sublime, take half a gram of phanerothyme. Aldous Huxley
useless adaptability term
In terms of adaptability, humans are pretty amazingly useless. Bill Bryson
useless would-be stamp-collecting
It would be hard to conceive of any activity more useless than stamp collecting. Dave Barry
useless today cigarette
The word "souvenir" has, of course, slightly extended itself in meaning until it now denotes almost anything either breakable or useless; but even today, ninety per cent of the items covered by the word are forgettable objects in which cigarettes can be left to go stale. Alan Coren
useless chaos forget
And don't forget: time is meant to be wasted, love fails and death is useless. Charles Bukowski
useless firsts hobbies
At first blush I am tempted to conclude that a satisfactory hobby must be in large degree useless, inefficient, laborious, or irrelevant. Aldo Leopold
useless action martial-arts
Without knowledge action is useless and knowledge without action is futile. Abu Bakr
useless alive wasting-time
Jealousy is a useless, time-wasting emotion that's eating me alive. A. J. Jacobs
useless littles way
Stories are the only thing that I can be bothered with. Its the only way that I can do anything, even if Im quite useless. Its the only area in being human where I could be a little useful. Alice Englert
useless body may
Considered now as a possession, one may define culture as the residuum of a large body of useless knowledge that has been well and truly forgotten. Albert J. Nock
doe easy preference
Nature does not always conform to our predispositions and preferences, to what we deem comfortable and easy to understand. Carl Sagan
doe pseudoscience would-be
Science arouses a soaring sense of wonder. But so does pseudoscience. Sparse and poor popularizations of science abandon ecological niches that pseudoscience promptly fills. If it were widely understood that claims to knowledge require adequate evidence before they can be accepted, there would be no room for pseudoscience...
doe looks world
The communist model does not work economically, we all realised that, but the capitalist model in the modern world also looks to be unsustainable. Arsene Wenger
doe body principles
If everything in chemistry is explained in a satisfactory manner without the help of phlogiston, it is by that reason alone infinitely probable that the principle does not exist; that it is a hypothetical body, a gratuitous supposition; indeed, it is in the principles of good logic, not to multiply bodies without necessity. Antoine Lavoisier
doe may littles
There is little of the true philosophic spirit in Aquinas. He does not, like the Platonic Socrates, set out to follow wherever the argument may lead. Bertrand Russell
doe causes unhappiness
Money does not make you happy, but the lack of money can cause unhappiness. Robert Kiyosaki
doe way audience
I never see things I make in the same way that the audience does. You can never do that. Baz Luhrmann
doe study because-i-can
Does this have anything to do with the unit we’re studying? Because I can’t find anything about desired characteristics of a mate anywhere in our text. Becca Fitzpatrick
doe looks
Vee scowled at him. She is famous for that scowl. It's a look that does everything but audibly hiss.