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«An unsophisticated forecaster uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts - for support rather than for illumination.»
«Get a sun lamp to keep you looking as if you have just come back from somewhere expensive»
Author: Aristotle Onassis (Businessman) | Keywords: lamp
«An apt quotation is like a lamp which flings its light over the whole sentence.»
Author: Letitia Landon | About: Quotations | Keywords: flings, lamp, quotation
«Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.»
«Anger blows out the lamp of the mind»
Author: Robert Green Ingersoll (Orator, Statesman) | About: Anger | Keywords: blows, lamp
«Asking a writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp post how it feels about dogs»
«A strong hatred is the best lamp to bear in our hands as we go over the dark places of life, cutting away the dead things men tell us to revere.»
«Anger blows out the lamp of the mind. In the examination of a great and important question, everyone should be serene, slow-pulsed and calm.»
«Be a lamp unto yourself. Work out your liberation with diligence.»
Author: Buddha | Keywords: diligence, lamp, liberation, out, work, work out
«He who knoweth the precepts by heart, but faileth to practice them, is like unto one who lighteth a lamp and then shutteth his eyes.»