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«Never settle with words what you can accomplish with a flamethrower.»
Author: Bruce Feirstein | Keywords: flamethrower, settle
«There are those of us who are always about to live. We are waiting until things change, until there is more time, until we are less tired, until we get a promotion, until we settle down / until, until, until. It always seems as if there is some major event that must occur in our lives before we begin living.»
«Some people are settling down, some people are settling and some people refuse to settle for anything less than butterflies.»
«Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life.»
«I like to help women help themselves, as that is, in my opinion, the best way to settle the woman question. Whatever we can do and do well we have a right to, and I don't think any one will deny us.»
Author: Louisa May Alcott (Author) | Keywords: do well, settle
«I hope... that mankind will at length, as they call themselves reasonable creatures, have reason and sense enough to settle their differences without cutting throats; for in my opinion there never was a good war, or a bad peace.»
«Of neighborhoods, benevolence is the most beautiful. How can the man be considered wise who when he had the choice does not settle in benevolence.»
«I tell you Wellington is a bad general, the English are bad soldiers; we will settle this matter by lunch time.»
«Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people who live in cities have lost their connection with the earth; they hang, as it were, in the air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle.»
«Painting is something that takes place among the colors, and one has to leave them alone completely, so that they can settle the matter among themselves. Their intercourse: this is the whole of painting. Whoever meddles, arranges, injects his human deliberation, his wit, his advocacy, his intellectual agility in any way, is already disturbing and clouding their activity.»

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