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«Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy -- the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation.»
Author: Eric Hoffer
(Writer)
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«He who must expend his life to prolong life cannot enjoy it, and he who is still seeking for his life does not have it and can as little enjoy it.»
«In a society of little economic development, universal inactivity accompanies universal poverty. You survive not by struggling against nature, or by increasing production, or by relentless labor; instead you survive by expending as little energy as possible, by striving constantly to achieve a state of immobility.»
Author: Ryszard Kapuscinski
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«Concentrating on the essentials. We will then be accomplishing the greatest possible results with the effort expended.»
«It is invariably saddening to look through new eyes at things upon which you have expended your own powers of adjustment.»
Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
(Writer)
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adjustment, expend, expended, expending, expends, invariably, saddened, saddening, saddens
«Men shall have the preeminence above women, because of those advantages wherein God hath caused the one of them to excel the other, and for that which they expend of their substance in maintaining their wives»
Author: quran
| About:
Men and Women
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«FOREORDINATION, n. This looks like an easy word to define, but when I consider that pious and learned theologians have spent long lives in explaining it, and written libraries to explain their explanations; when I remember the nations have been divided and bloody battles caused by the difference between foreordination and predestination, and that millions of treasure have been expended in the effort to prove and disprove its compatibility with freedom of the will and the efficacy of prayer, praise, and a religious life, --recalling these awful facts in the history of the word, I stand appalled before the mighty problem of its signification, abase my spiritual eyes, fearing to contemplate its portentous magnitude, reverently uncover and humbly refer it to His Eminence Cardinal Gibbons and His Grace Bishop Potter.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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«Living in a constant chase after gain compels people to expend their spirit to the point of exhaustion»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| About:
Living
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«It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.»
«I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents.»
Author: James Madison
(President)
| About:
Benevolence,
Charity,
Government,
Taxation
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