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«Plenty of men can do good work for a spurt and with immediate promotion in mind, but for promotion you want a man in whom good work has become a habit.»
«There was only one catch and that was Catch-22, which specified that a concern for one's own safety in the face of dangers that were real and immediate was the process of a rational mind.»
Author: Joseph Heller
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concern, dangers, for one, immediate, rational, safety, safety catch, specified, specify, specifying, The Face of, The Process
«Nothing worth doing is completed in our lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope. Nothing true or beautiful makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore we must be saved by faith. Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore, we are saved by love.»
Author: Reinhold Niebuhr
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«The fact is that one side thinks that the profits to be won outweigh the risks to be incurred, and the other side would rather avoid danger than accept an immediate loss.»
Author: Thucydides
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Risk-taking
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immediate, incurred, incurring, incurs, outweigh, outweighing, outweighs, profits, profit and loss
«There's no present. There's only the immediate future and the recent past.»
«No other terms than unconditional and immediate surrender. I propose to move immediately upon your works.»
«On a day of burial there is no perspective -- for space itself is annihilated. Your dead friend is still a fragmentary being. The day you bury him is a day of chores and crowds, of hands false or true to be shaken, of the immediate cares of mourning. The dead friend will not really die until tomorrow, when silence is round you again. Then he will show himself complete, as he was -- to tear himself away, as he was, from the substantial you. Only then will you cry out because of him who is leaving and whom you cannot detain.»
Author: Antoine de Saint-Exupery
(Author, Pilot, Writer)
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«The news automatically becomes the real world for the TV user and is not a substitute for reality, but is itself an immediate reality.»
Author: Marshall McLuhan
(Educator, Social Reformer, Writer)
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Reality,
Television
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automatically, immediate, real world, The News, The Real World, TV news
«The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.»
«There will always be a part, and always a very large part of every community, that have no care but for themselves, and whose care for themselves reaches little further than impatience of immediate pain, and eagerness for the nearest good»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
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Community
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eagerness, immediate, impatience, nearest
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