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«My fortune somewhat resembled that of a person who should entertain an idea of committing suicide, and, altogether beyond his hopes, meet with the good hap to be murdered.»
Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
(Novelist, Writer)
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altogether, committing, entertain, hap, murdered, resembled, somewhat
«Onion soup sustains. The process of making it is somewhat like the process of learning to love. It requires commitment, extraordinary effort, time, and will make you cry.»
Author: Ronni Lundy
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Love
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commitment, extraordinary, learning process, Learning to, onion, Onions, process, requires, somewhat, soup, soups, sustaining, sustains, The Onion, The Process
«The simple fact is that when I took up my little sling and aimed at Communism, I also hit something else. What I hit was the forces of that great socialist revolution, which, in the name of liberalism, spasmodically, incompletely, somewhat formlessly, always in the same direction, has been inching its ice cap over the nation for two decades. ...[T]hough I knew it existed, I still had no adequate idea of its extent, the depth of its penetration or the fierce vindictiveness of its revolutionary temper, which is a reflex of it struggle to keep and advance its political power.»
Author: Whittaker Chambers
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adequate, aimed, cap, capped, caps, decades, existed, fierce, formlessly, ice cap, inching, incompletely, liberalism, penetration, political power, reflex, reflexes, revolutionary, sling, slings, slung, socialist, somewhat, spasmodically, T, to a great extent, vindictiveness
«People ask that a lot. They say, 'What did you do while you took time out ?' - as if the rest of my life is taking time out. But the fact is, making movies is time out for me because the rest, the nearly complete whole, is what's real for me. I'm not an actor and haven't been for years. I'm a human being - hopefully a concerned and somewhat intelligent one - who occasionally acts.»
«The highest manifestation of life consists in this: that a being governs its own actions. A thing which is always subject to the direction of another is somewhat of a dead thing.»
«Out of monuments, names, words, proverbs, traditions, private records and evidences, fragments of stories, passages of books, and the like, we do save and recover somewhat from the deluge of time»
Author: Francis Bacon, Sr.
(Lawyer, Philosopher)
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and the like, deluge, deluges, evidences, fragmented, fragments, monuments, passages, Proverbs, records, recover, somewhat, The Deluge, the like, Traditions
«The death of a dear friend, wife, brother, lover, which seemed nothing but privation, somewhat later assumes the aspect of a guide or genius; for it commonly operates revolutions in our way of life, terminates an epoch of infancy or of youth which was waiting to be closed, breaks up a wonted occupation, or a household, or style of living, and allows the formation of new ones more friendly to the growth of character.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
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assumes, epoch, epochs, formation, household, infancy, operates, privation, privations, revolutions, somewhat, terminate, terminated, terminates, terminating, way of life, wonted