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«Sailing is just the bottom line, like adding up the score in bridge. My real interest is in the tremendous game of life.»
«Worry not about the possible troubles of the future; for if they come, you are but anticipating and adding to their weight; and if they do not come, your worry is useless; and in either case it is weak and in vain, and a distrust of God's providence.»
Author: Hugh Blair | Keywords: adding, anticipating
«The past is our definition. We may strive, with good reason, to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it, but we will escape it only by adding something better to it.»
Author: Wendell Berry | About: Past | Keywords: adding, definition, escape, strive
«Thank God for the creative ideas that enrich life by adding your own creative contributions to human progress»
Author: Wilfred Peterson | About: Creativity | Keywords: adding, contributions, enrich
«The courage to imagine the otherwise is our greatest resource, adding color and suspense to all our life.»
Author: Daniel J. Boorstin | About: Life | Keywords: adding, in suspense, resource, suspense
«Women are the fulfilled sex. Through our children we are able to produce our own immortality, so we lack that divine restlessness which sends men charging off in pursuit of fortune or fame or an imagined Utopia. That is why we number so few geniuses among us. The wholesome oyster wears no pearl, the healthy whale no ambergris, and as long as we can keep on adding to the race, we harbor a sort of health within ourselves.»
«The great successful men of the world have used their imaginations... they think ahead and create their mental picture, and the go to work materializing that picture in all its details, filling in here, adding a little there, altering this a bit and that a bit, but steadily building / steadily building.»
«The most cogent reason for restricting the interference of government is the great evil of adding unnecessarily to its power.»
«The tragedy of human life consists in our vain attempts to stretch the limits of things which can never become unlimited, to reach the infinite by absurdly adding to the rungs of the ladder of the finite.»
«Salvation comes only from the practice of Truth. By adding spices to forbidden foods, they are not made acceptable.»

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