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reflection
«I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection»
Author: Thomas Paine
(Writer)
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Men
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being brave, brave, braver, Braves, braving, distress, gather, Gathering The, gather in, gather up, in trouble, reflection
«My father is the jailhouse. My father is your system.... I am only what you made me. I am only a reflection of you.»
«It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment»
Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero
(Lawyer, Orator, Scholar, Statesman, Writer)
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achieved, dexterity, force, judgment, muscle, muscle into, physical, physical force, physical thing, reflection, sped, speed, speeded, speeded up, speeds, speed up
«How strange is the lot of us mortals! Each of us is here for a brief sojourn; for what purpose he knows not, though he senses it. But without deeper reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
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brief, briefed, briefest, briefing, daily, deeper, each, exists, For, from, here, how, knows, life, lot, mortals, one, other, Other People, people, People Like Us, purpose, purposing, reflection, sensed, senses, sense an, sense of purpose, sensing, sojourn, sojourning, strange, There exist, though, U.S., us, WHAT
«I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation [and] is but a reflection of human frailty.»
«I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own -- a God, in short, who is but a reflection of human frailty. Neither can I believe that the individual survives the death of his body, although feeble souls harbor such thoughts through fear or ridiculous egotisms.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
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God
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after, although, body, Creation, death, Death of, feeble, feebler, feeblest, frailties, frailty, God of death, harbor, harbored, harbors, imagine, individual, in short, modeled, Model I, Model T, neither, objects, our own, punishes, purposes, reflection, rewards, ridiculous, short, souls, such, survives
«Much that is dreadful and inhuman in history, much that one hardly likes to believe, is mitigated by the reflection that the one who commands and the one who carries out are different people. The former does not behold the sight and does not experience the strong impression on the imagination. The latter obeys a superior and therefore feels no responsibility for the acts.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
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behold, carries, commands, dreadful, former, hardly, impression, inhuman, in history, latter, likes, mitigate, mitigated, mitigates, obeys, reflection
«It is only after time has been given for a cool and deliberate reflection that the real voice of the people can be known»
Author: George Washington
(President)
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cool, deliberate, deliberates, Deliberating, reflection, The Voice of the People
«I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.»
Author: Thomas Paine
(Writer)
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approves, distress, firm, gather, in trouble, pursue, reflection, shrink, The Business