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perplexes
«Given the amount of unjust suffering and unhappiness in the world, I am deeply grateful for, sometimes even perplexed by, how much misery I have been spared.»
Author: Dennis Prager
| About:
Gratitude,
Misery,
Unhappiness
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grateful, perplex, perplexed, perplexes, perplexing, spared, The World I, unhappiness, unjust
«It is very perplexing how an intrepid frontier people, who fought a wilderness, floods, tornadoes, and the Rockies, cower before criticism, which is regarded as a malignant tumor in the imagination.»
«He forever perplexes and annoys. Every time you think he is about to show the statesmanship for which his intelligence and experience have equipped him, he throws a spitball.»
«The most perplexing form of evil, and especially so for all idealists, is that kind of evil which comes out of our efforts to do good. Perhaps when we try to do good without love, we create evil.»
Author: William Irwin Thompson
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comes out, do good, efforts, especially, for all, Idealists, perplex, perplexes, perplexing, The Idealists
«Quiet minds can't be perplexed or frightened, but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.»
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
(Author, Essayist, Poet)
| About:
Mind
| Keywords:
clock, frightened, misfortune, pace, perplex, perplexed, perplexes, perplexing, thunderstorm, thunderstorms
«But human bodies are sic fools, For a' their colleges and schools, That when nae real ills perplex them, They make enow themsel's to vex them»
«All of us might wish at times that we lived in a more tranquil world, but we don't. And if our times are difficult and perplexing, so are they challenging and filled with opportunity.»
Author: Robert Francis Kennedy
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at times, challenging, perplex, perplexes, perplexing, tranquil
«Art thou poor, yet hast thou golden slumbers? / O sweet content! / Art thou rich, yet is thy mind perplexed? / O punishment!»
«We were wise indeed, could we discern truly the signs of our own time; and by knowledge of its wants and advantages, wisely adjust our own position in it. Let us, instead of gazing idly into the obscure distance, look calmly around us, for a little, on the perplexed scene where we stand. Perhaps, on a more serious inspection, something of its perplexity will disappear, some of its distinctive characters and deeper tendencies more clearly reveal themselves; whereby our own relations to it, our own true aims and endeavors in it, may also become clearer.»
Author: Thomas Carlyle
(Essayist, Historian)
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