“ A truth that disheartens because it is true is of more value than the most stimulating of falsehoods. ”
- Maurice Maeterlinck- Copy
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“ To many men... the miasma of peace seems more suffocating than the bracing air of war. ”
- George Steiner- Copy
- 238
“ What is exhilarating in bad taste is the aristocratic pleasure of giving offense. ”
- Charles Baudelaire- Copy
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“ There is something healthy and invigorating about direct action. ”
- Henry Miller- Copy
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“ Wouldn't it be an exhilarating tonic for the soul to take a moment to appreciate the simple, good things in life which are so bountiful...? ”
- Unknown- Copy
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“ What fun it would be to be poor, as long as one was excessively poor! Anything in excess is most exhilarating. ”
- Jean Anouilh- Copy
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“ There is nothing more exhilarating than to be shot at without result. ”
- Sir Winston Churchill- Copy
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“ There is nothing more exhilarating than to be shot at without result. ”
- Winston Churchill- Copy
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“ Travel is like a tonic to me. It's more than just getting away from the studio for a brief rest. I need it to recharge my batteries. ”
- Norman Rockwell- Copy
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“ Going on Letterman is like going off the high dive. It's exhilarating, but after a while it wasn't the kind of thrill I enjoyed. ”
- Lynda Barry- Copy
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“ We are not debating stimulating the economy. We are eviscerating the Bush tax cut. ”
- Robert Bennett- Copy
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“ The potential possibilities of any child are the most intriguing and stimulating in all creation. ”
- Ray L. Wilbur- Copy
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“ Men have conceived a twofold use of sleep; it is a refreshing of the body in this life, and a preparing of the soul for the next. ”
- John Donne- Copy
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“ Madness is tonic and invigorating. It makes the sane more sane. The only ones who are unable to profit by it are the insane. ”
- Henry Miller- Copy
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“ Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result. ”
- Winston Churchill- Copy
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“ Nothing in life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it. ”
- Ellen Glasgow- Copy
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“ For the last third of life there remains only work. It alone is always stimulating, rejuvenating, exciting and satisfaction. ”
- Käthe Kollwitz- Copy
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“ Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating. ”
- Denis Waitley- Copy
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“ It's refreshing to see a young player with that kind of makeup. This game needs more Nomars. ”
- Paul Molitor- Copy
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“ Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces up, and snow is exhilarating; there is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather. ”
- John Ruskin- Copy
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“ Much of what we call evil is due entirely to the way men take the phenomenon. It can so often be converted into a bracing and tonic good by a simple change of the sufferer's inner attitude from one of fear to one of fight; its string can so often depart and turn into a relish when, after vainly seeking to shun it, we agree to face about and bear it… ”
- William James- Copy
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“ W.C. Fields was completely wrong, because with children, they have a spontaneity, they have a purity, they have a morality and they have an ethical approach to things and a curiosity that is utterly, utterly refreshing and reminds me of my first days in the theater and reminds me of why I'm an actor in the first place… ”
- Ben Kingsley- Copy
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“ The Iowa Psychology Department was not Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood. It was, indeed, an intellectually lively and demanding place where major theoretical issues were pursued with a passion. It was refreshingly free of colorless eclecticism. ”
- Albert Bandura- Copy
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