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Islands of the
«True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island..to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing.»
Author: Baltasar Gracian
(Philosopher, Writer)
| About:
Friends,
Friendship
| Keywords:
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«All mankind is of one author, and is one volume; when one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language; and every chapter must be so translated...As therefore the bell that rings to a sermon, calls not upon the preacher only, but upon the congregation to come: so this bell calls us all: but how much more me, who am brought so near the door by this sickness....No man is an island, entire of itself...any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.»
Author: John Donne
| Keywords:
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«The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color-line -- the relation of the darker to the lighter races of men in Asia and Africa, in America and the islands of the sea. It was a phase of this problem that caused the Civil War.»
Author: W. E. B. Du Bois
(Civil-Rights Leader, Scholar, Sociologist)
| Keywords:
Africa, civil war, color line, islands, Islands of the, lighter, lighters, phase, races, race problem, The Civil War, The Problem of the, twentieth, twentieth century
«And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant of his people, which shall be left, from Assyria, and from Egypt, and from Pathros, and from Cush, and from Elam, and from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea.»
Author: Bible
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Assyria, Cush, Hamath, islands, Islands of the, remnant, second time, Shinar
«How I wish that somewhere there existed an island for those who are wise and of good will»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| Keywords:
an island, existed, good will, island, Islands of the, somewhere, wise, wish
«They blow themselves up in order to get at us, and we launch 3 million dollar missiles off of giant floating iron islands 2000 miles away -- Who are the real cowards?»
«No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.»
Author: Denis Waitley
(Author, Speaker)
| Keywords:
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«It's fun to imagine what you could do with that kind of money. I could buy that island I've wanted to buy all my life, and live there with my family. Or I could buy some great piece of art that's just going to feed my eyes every day. It's fun to toy with the notion of that, and it is very tempting because money, unfortunately is freedom in today's world.»
«The optimist lives on the peninsula of infinite possibilities; the pessimist is stranded on the island of perpetual indecision.»
Author: William Arthur Ward
| Keywords:
indecision, infinite, island, Islands of the, optimist, perpetual, pessimist, possibilities, stranded, the island, The Peninsula, The Strand
«We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.»
Author: Winston Churchill
(Author, Orator, Prime Minister)
| Keywords:
beaches, cost, defend, Fields, grounds, hills, island, Islands of the, landing, landings, landing field, On the Beach, surrender, The Beaches, The Streets