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absorbed
«A generation which has passed through the shop has absorbed standards and ambitions which are not of those of spaciousness, and cannot get away from them. Everything with them is done as though for sale, and they naturally have in view the greatest possible benefit, profit and that end of the stuff that will make the best show.»
Author: Alexander Herzen
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absorbed, ambitions, for sale, get away, in view, sale, spaciousness
«For success in training children the first condition is to become as a child oneself, but this means no assumed childishness, no condescending baby-talk that the child immediately sees through and deeply abhors. What it does mean is to be as entirely and simply taken up with the child as the child himself is absorbed by his life.»
Author: Ellen Key
(Writer)
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abhors, absorbed, assumed, baby talk, childishness, condescend, condescended, condescending, In Training, taken up
«Every writer is a narcissist. This does not mean that he is vain; it only means that he is hopelessly self-absorbed.»
«A person is said to have achieved yoga, the union with the Self, when the perfectly disciplined mind gets freedom from all desires, and becomes absorbed in the Self alone.»
Author: Bhagavad Gita
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absorbed, disciplined, perfectly, the self, the union, union, yoga
«Absorbed in Brahman, the serene one neither grieves nor desires; becoming impartial to all beings, one obtains My supreme devotion.»
«Big Brother isn?t watching. He?s singing and dancing. He?s pulling rabbits out of a hat. Big Brother?s busy holding your attention every moment you?re awake. He?s making sure you?re always distracted. He?s making sure you?re fully absorbed.»
Author: Chuck Palahniuk
(Journalist, Novelist, Satirist)
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absorbed, absorbs, attention, awake, big brother, brother, busy, dancing, distracted, distracting, distracts, fully, hat, holding, pulling, rabbits, rabbit on, singing, watching
«As metal merges with metal, those who chant the Praises of the Lord are absorbed into the Praiseworthy Lord. Like the poppies, they are dyed in the deep crimson color of Truthfulness. Those contented souls who meditate on the Lord with single-minded love, meet the True Lord.»
Author: Sri Guru Granth Sahib
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absorbed, chant, crimson, merges, metal, poppies, poppy, praiseworthy, single-minded, true color
«A weaver who has to direct and to interweave a great many little threads has no time to philosophize about it, rather, he is so absorbed in his work that he doesn't think, he acts: and it's nothing he can explain, he just feels how things should go.»
Author: Vincent van Gogh
(Painter)
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absorbed, interweave, interweaving, no Time, philosophize, philosophized, philosophizes, threads, weaver, weavers