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come across
«I think a lot more decisions are made on serendipity than people think. Things come across their radar screens and they jump at them.»
«Actors ought to be larger than life. You come across quite enough ordinary, nondescript people in daily life and I don't see why you should be subjected to them on the stage too.»
Author: Ninon de Lenclos
| About:
Actors and acting
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across, actors, come across, larger-than-life, larger, nondescript, ordinary, stage, subjected, The Stage
«Those Romans who perpetrated the rape of the Sabines, for example, did not work themselves up for the deed by screening Debbie Does Dallas, and the monkish types who burned a million or so witches in the Middle Ages had almost certainly not come across Boobs and Buns or related periodicals.»
Author: Barbara Ehrenreich
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boob, boobs, bun, buns, come across, Dallas, for example, middle ages, monkish, or so, periodical, perpetrate, perpetrated, perpetrates, rape, related, Romans, screening, types
«No deep and strong feeling, such as we may come across here and there in the world, is unmixed with compassion. The more we love, the more the object of our love seems to us to be a victim.»
Author: Boris Pasternak
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across, come across, here and there, such as, The Object of, unmixed, victim, with compassion
«Philosophy is the stray camel of the faithful; take hold of it wherever ye come across it»
Author: Muhammad
(Religious leader)
| About:
Philosophy
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camel, come across, stray, strayed, straying, strays, take hold, take hold of
«When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes part of me.»
Author: William Somerset Maugham
(Novelist, Playwright, Writer)
| About:
Books,
Reading
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across, come across, eyes-only, now and then, passage, phrase, phrased, phrasing
«An extra-terrestrial philosopher, who had watched a single youth up to the age of twenty-one and had never come across any other human being, might conclude that it is the nature of human beings to grow continually taller and wiser in an indefinite progress towards perfection; and this generalization would be just as well founded as the generalization which evolutionists base upon the previous history of this planet.»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
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base, come across, conclude, continually, extra, founded, generalization, generalizations, indefinite, previous, taller, terrestrial, twenty one, watched, well-founded