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«A novel is not just a work of art: It is somehow a work of life as well.»
Author: George P. Elliott
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«A positive attitude may not solve every problem but it makes solving any problem a more pleasant experience.»
Author: Grant Fairley
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Attitude,
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may not, pleasant, pleasanter, pleasantest, positive, solve, solving
«Blessed is the man who has some congenial work, some occupation in which he can put his heart, and which affords a complete outlet to all the forces there are in him.»
Author: John Burroughs
(Essayist, Naturalist)
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affords, congenial, occupation, outlet, outlets
«Be strong!We are not here to play, to dream, to drift;We have hard work to do and loads to lift;Shun not the struggle -- face it; 'tis God's gift.»
«A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.»
Author: W. H. Auden
(Dramatist, Editor, Poet)
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America and Americans,
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Anything Else, bores, everyday, go down, In America, likes, office, rich man, The Office, tremendous
«Buying the right computer and getting it to work properly is no more complicated than building a nuclear reactor from wristwatch parts in a darkened room using only your teeth.»
Author: Dave Barry
(Humorist, Writer)
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building, buying, complicate, complicated, complicates, computer, darken, darkened, darkening, darkens, no more, nuclear, nuclear reactor, parts, properly, reactor, right to work, room, teeth, using, wristwatch
«But after all I find in my work an echo of what struck me. I see that nature has told me something, has spoken to me, and that I have put it down in shorthand. In my shorthand there may be words that cannot be deciphered. There may be mistakes or gap»
Author: Vincent van Gogh
(Painter)
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Mistakes,
Nature,
Words,
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decipher, deciphered, deciphering, echo, gap, shorthand, struck