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ordeals

«But how is one to make a scientist understand that there is something unalterably deranged about differential calculus, quantum theory, or the obscene and so inanely liturgical ordeals of the precession of the equinoxes.»
«People everywhere enjoy believing things that they know are not true. It spares them the ordeal of thinking for themselves and taking responsibility for what they know.»
«Family dinners are more often than not an ordeal of nervous indigestion, preceded by hidden resentment and ennui and accompanied by psychosomatic jitters.»
«Any ordeal that you can survive as a human being is an improvement in your character,and usually an improvement in your life.»
«Geraldine Ferraro was undergoing one of the worst ordeals of a media age-trial by disclosure.»
«Men do not fight for flag or country, for the Marine Corps or glory or any other abstraction. They fight for one another. [And] if you came through this ordeal, you would age with dignity.»
«Marriage is not a simple love affair, it's an ordeal, and the ordeal is the sacrifice of ego to a relationship in which two have become one»
«I am prepared to meet anyone, but whether anyone is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.»
Author: Mark Twain (Humorist, Lecturer, Writer) | Keywords: ordeal, ordeals
«Cramming seeks to stamp things in by intense application immediately before the ordeal. But a thing thus learned can form but few associations.»
«I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the ordeal of meeting me is another matter.»