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Nine Lives
«There is always a multitude of reasons both in favor of doing a thing and against doing it. The art of debate lies in presenting them; the art of life lies in neglecting ninety-nine hundredths of them.»
Author: Mark Rutherford
| About:
Lies,
Reason
| Keywords:
debate, hundredths, multitude, neglecting, ninety, Ninety nine, Nine Lives, presenting
«By any accepted standard, I have had more than nine lives. I counted them up once and there were 13 times I almost and maybe should have died»
Author: Hunter S. Thompson
(Author, Journalist)
| Keywords:
accepted, counted, have died, Nine Lives, standard
«I had a series of childhood illnesses; scarlet fever, pneumonia, polio. I walked with braces until I was at least nine years old. My life wasn't like the average person who grew up and decided to enter the world of sports.»
Author: Wilma Rudolph
(Runner)
| About:
Childhood,
Illness
| Keywords:
brace, braces, bracing, fever, illnesses, Nine Lives, pneumonia, polio, scarlet, scarlet fever, sports, World Series
«Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.»
Author: C.S. Lewis
(Novelist, Scholar)
| About:
Affection
| Keywords:
affection, durable, lives, nines, Nine Lives, responsible, responsible for, solid, solidest, tenths, whatever
«Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| About:
Life
| Keywords:
arts, error, exposed, Nine Lives, nine times
«There are nine requisites for contented living: HEALTH enough to make work a pleasure; WEALTH enough to support your needs; STRENGTH enough to battle with difficulties and forsake them; GRACE enough to confess your sins and overcome them; PATIENCE enough to toil until some good is accomplished; CHARITY enough to see some good in your neighbor; LOVE enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others; FAITH enough to make real the things of God; HOPE enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
accomplished, anxious, battle, charities, charity, concerning, confess, confessing, contented, difficulties, Faith in the Future, fears, forsake, forsakes, forsaking, Good Neighbors, grace, health, helpful, Hope and Faith, move, needs, neighbor, neighboring, nines, Nine Lives, overcome, patience, remove, requisites, sins, support, The Good Neighbor, toil, toiled, toiling, useful, wealth
«One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
differences, nine, Nine Lives, strike out, striking