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«Events are the ephemera of history; they pass across its stage like fireflies, hardly glimpsed before they settle back into darkness and as often as not into oblivion. Every event, however brief, has to be sure a contribution to make, lights up some dark corner or even some wide vista of history. Nor it it only political history which benefits most, for every historical landscape--political, economic, social, even geographical--is illumined by the intermittent flare of the event.»
Author: Fernand Braudel
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benefits, contribution, ephemera, fireflies, firefly, flare, flares, flare up, geographical, glimpsed, historical, illumine, illumined, illumines, intermittent, landscape, oblivion, pass across, Political history, settle, social event, to be sure, vista, vistas
«A cat can maintain a position of curled up somnolence on your knee until you are nearly upright. To the last minute she hopes your conscience will get the better of you and you will settle down again.»
«He never wants anything but what's right and fair; only when you come to settle what's right and fair, it's everything that he wants and nothing that you want.»
«Hire people who are better than you are, then leave them to get on with it. Look for people who will aim for the remarkable, who will not settle for the routine.»
Author: David Ogilvy
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Relationships
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get on, get on with, hire, hires, hire out, hiring, look for, remarkable, routine, routines, settle
«Ay, go to the grave of buried love and meditate! There settle the account with thy conscience for every past benefit unrequited - every past endearment unregarded, of that departed being, who can never, never, never return to be soothed by thy contr»
Author: Washington Irving
(Writer)
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buried, departed, endearment, endearments, meditate, Return to, settle, soothed, unrequited