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1962 John Steinbeck
If one is vacilando, he is going somewhere but doesn't greatly care whether or not he gets there, although he has direction.
In Spanish there is a word for which I can't find a counterword in English. It is the verb vacilar, present participle vacilando. It ...
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1956 C. S. Lewis — UK
If one could run without getting tired I don't think one would often want to do anything else.
If one could run without getting tired I don't think one would often want to do anything else.
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1956 C. S. Lewis — UK
Kdyby někdo mohl běhat a neunavil se při tom, pochybuju, že by chtěl dělat něco jiného.
Kdyby někdo mohl běhat a neunavil se při tom, pochybuju, že by chtěl dělat něco jiného.
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1954 Jan Werich
Člověk nemá zestárnout, dokud nezmoudří.
Člověk nemá zestárnout, dokud nezmoudří.
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1954 J. R. R. Tolkien — UK
Not all those who wander are lost.
Not all those who wander are lost.
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1951 Jerome D. Salinger
Vlastně ani nevím, proč jsem běhal. Nejspíš se mi chtělo.
Vlastně ani nevím, proč jsem běhal. Nejspíš se mi chtělo.
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1951 Jerome D. Salinger — USA
I don't even know what I was running for — I guess I just felt like it.
I don't even know what I was running for — I guess I just felt like it.
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1948 Richard P. Feynman
You can't say A is made of B or vice versa. All mass is interaction.
You can't say A is made of B or vice versa. All mass is interaction.
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1936 F. Scott Fitzgerald
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability ...
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1935 Upton Sinclair
It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.
It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.
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1928 John A. Shedd
A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are made for.
A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are made for.
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1922 George Santayana
Only the dead have seen the end of war.
Only the dead have seen the end of war.
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1922 Ludwig Wittgenstein
The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.
The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.
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1914 Ella Wheeler Wilcox
To sin by silence when we should protest makes cowards out of men.
To sin by silence when we should protest makes cowards out of men.
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1909 Jack London
Limited minds can recognize limitations only in others.
Limited minds can recognize limitations only in others.
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1906 George Santayana
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
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1890 Arthur Conan Doyle
When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
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1859 Charles Darwin
There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity...
There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and ...
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1832 Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
History teaches us that man learns nothing from history.
History teaches us that man learns nothing from history.
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