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«Put love first. Entertain thoughts that give life. And when a thought or resentment, or hurt, or fear comes your way, have another thought that is more powerful -- a thought that is love.»
«My fortune somewhat resembled that of a person who should entertain an idea of committing suicide, and, altogether beyond his hopes, meet with the good hap to be murdered.»
Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
(Novelist, Writer)
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altogether, committing, entertain, hap, murdered, resembled, somewhat
«People have become so empty that they can't even entertain themselves. They have to pay other people to amuse them, to make them laugh, to try to make them feel warm and happy and comfortable for a few minutes, to try to lose that awful, frightening, hollow feeling--that terrible, dreaded feeling of being lost and alone.»
Author: Billy Graham
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amuse, dreaded, entertain, frightening, hollow, hollowing, hollows, warm
«I have something to tell you non-smokers that I know for a fact that you don't know, and I feel it's my duty to pass on information at all times. Ready?. . . . Non-smokers die every day . . . Enjoy your evening. See, I know that you entertain this eternal life fantasy because you've chosen not to smoke, but let me be the 1st to POP that bubble and bring you hurling back to reality . . . You're dead too.»
«Silence may be golden, but can you think of a better way to entertain someone than to listen to him?»
Author: Brigham Young
(President)
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entertain, entertains, golden, listen, silence, think of
«I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.»
«I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn't wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine.»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
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Opinions
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dogmatically, entertain
«Let death be daily before your eyes, and you will never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything.»