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«Propaganda is that branch of the art of lying which consists in nearly deceiving your friends without quite deceiving your enemies.»
«Religion was nearly dead because there was no longer real belief in future life; but something was struggling to take its place -- service -- social service -- the ants creed, the bees creed.»
Author: John Galsworthy
(Novelist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
ants, bees, creed, nearly, social service, struggling, The Ants
«One of the reasons it has seemed so difficult for a person to change his habits, his personality, or his way of life, has been that heretofore nearly all efforts at change have been directed to the circumference of the self, so to speak, rather than to the center.»
Author: Maxwell Maltz
| Keywords:
center, circumference, directed, efforts, habits, heretofore, nearly, personality, seemed, so to speak, The Center, the self, way of life
«Nearly every man who develops an idea works it up to the point where it looks impossible, and then he gets discouraged. That's not the place to become discouraged.»
Author: Thomas Alva Edison
(Inventor)
| About:
Ideas
| Keywords:
develops, discouraged, nearly, the point, to the point
«Oh, the difference between nearly right and exactly right.»
Author: H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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nearly
«Nearly everything you do is of no importance, but it is important that you do it»
Author: Mahatma Gandhi
(Philosopher)
| Keywords:
do it, Everything You, importance, important, nearly
«Our hope of immortality does not come from any religions, but nearly all religions come from that hope»
Author: Robert Green Ingersoll
(Orator, Statesman)
| About:
Immortality,
Religion
| Keywords:
immortality, nearly, religions
«There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one side stands more or less for progress, the other side more or less for reaction.»
Author: George Orwell
(Essayist, Novelist)
| Keywords:
hardly, more or less, nearly, one-sided, Other side, reaction, The other side, wins
«The capacity to give one's attention to a sufferer is a very rare and difficult thing; it is almost a miracle; it is a miracle. Nearly all those who think they have this capacity do not possess it. Warmth of heart, impulsiveness, pity are not enough.»
Author: Simone Weil
(Activist, Mystic, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
impulsiveness, nearly, sufferer, sufferers, warmth