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«Each day is a special gift from God, and while life may not always be fair, you must never allow the pains, hurdles, and handicaps of the moment to poison your attitude and plans for yourself and your future. You can never win when you wear the ugly cloak of self-pity, and the sour sound of whining will certainly frighten away any opportunity for success. Never again. There is a better way.»
Author: Og Mandino
(Essayist, Psychologist)
| Keywords:
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«But every one shall die for his own iniquity: every man that eateth the sour grape, his teeth shall be set on edge.»
«For afore the harvest, when the bud is perfect, and the sour grape is ripening in the flower, he shall both cut off the sprigs with pruning hooks, and take away and cut down the branches.»
«Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us. Its appetite grows keener by indulgence and all we can gratify it with at present serves but the more to inflame its insatiable desires.»
«?Experts in ancient Greek culture say that people back then didn?t see their thoughts as belonging to them. When ancient Greeks had a thought, it occurred to them as a god or goddess giving an order. Apollo was telling them to be brave. Athena was telling them to fall in love. Now people hear a commercial for sour cream potato chips and rush out to buy, but now they call this free will. At least the ancient Greeks were being honest.?»
Author: Chuck Palahniuk
(Journalist, Novelist, Satirist)
| Keywords:
Ancient Greek, ancient Greeks, ancient people, Apollo, Athena, belonging, brave, call back, chipped, chipping, chips, chip in, commercial, cream, creamed, creams, culture, experts, fall in, fall in love, free will, goddess, gods and goddesses, Greek, Greeks, Greek a, occurred, out to, potato, rush, rush out, sour, soured, sourest, souring, sours, sour cream, telling, The Cream
«A quarrel is like buttermilk, once it's out of the churn; the more you shake it, the more sour it grows»
«'Tis melancholy, and a fearful sign Of human frailty, folly, also crime, That love and marriage rarely can combine, Although they both are born in the same clime; Marriage from love, like vinegar from wine - A sad, sour, sober beverage - by time Is s»
«He was a scholar, and a ripe and good one;Exceedingly wise, fair-spoken and persuading;Lofty and sour to them that loved him not;But to those men that sought him sweet as summer.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
exceedingly, lofty, persuading, ripe, scholar, sought, sour, summer sweet
