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«Procrastination is, hands down, our favorite form of self-sabotage.»
Author: Alyce P. Cornyn-Selby
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Procrastination
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«Kissing-and I mean like, yummy, smacking kissing - is the most delicious, most beautiful and passionate thing that two people can do, bar none. Better than sex, hands down.»
Author: Drew Barrymore
(Actress)
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Kissing
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«The life history of the individual is first and foremost an accommodation to the patterns and standards traditionally handed down in his community.»
Author: Ruth Benedict
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Community,
History,
Life
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accommodation, accommodations, first and foremost, foremost, handed-down, handed, History of the, life history, patterns, standards, traditionally
«The desire to fly is an idea handed down to us by our ancestors who...looked enviously on the birds soaring freely through space...on the infinite highway of the air.»
Author: Wilbur Wright
(Inventor)
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air space, enviously, handed-down, handed, highway, soaring, The Birds, To Fly
«Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.»
Author: Buddha
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Belief
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«Books have been handed down from generation to generation, as the true teachers of piety and the love of God, that represent him as so merciless and tyrannical a despot, that, if they were considered otherwise than through the medium of prejudice, they could inspire nothing but hatred. It seems that the impression we derive from a book, depends much less on its real contents, than upon the temper of mind and preparation with which we read it.»
«No one knows where he who invented the plow was born, nor where he died; yet he has done more for humanity than the whole race of heroes who have drenched the earth with blood and whose deeds have been handed down with a precision proportionate only»
Author: Charles Caleb Colton
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Blood and, drench, drenched, drenched in, drenches, handed-down, plow, proportionate
«It is our task in our time and in our generation, to hand down undiminished to those who come after us, as was handed down to us by those who went before, the natural wealth and beauty which is ours.»
Author: John Fitzgerald Kennedy
(President)
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«The fear and anxiety that infect humanity today are the results of this degradation of values, this ignorance of what is of significance and what is not, this want of faith in what the elders and sages have handed down as the wisdom of ages. People prefer what is pleasing to what is beneficial.»
Author: Sri Sathya Sai Baba
(Spiritual leader)
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beneficial, handed-down, infect, sages, The Age of Anxiety