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Trouble Is Like A Sieve Through Which We Sift Our Acquaintances.
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Trouble is like a sieve through which we sift our acquaintances.
Those too big to pass through are our friends.
-- Arlene Francis
Related:
And given this topology [the mobius strip] we can move on what is known as an orientation-reversing path.
We cannot do this in our normal three-space topology, except via those paths which pass through San Francisco or Greenwich Village....
Through our dreams, we go further ...
Nothing will surprise us more than to pass through to the other side of the veil and realize how well we recognize our Father's face.
-- Ezra Taft Benso...
It is primarily through our identification with social groups that we define ourselves.
Maybe we were meant to fight our way through.
In the adversity of our best friends we often find something that is not exactly displeasing.
Francis Rabelais: (1495-1553)...
Cosmus, Duke of Florence, was wont to say of perfidious friends, that "We read that we ought to forgive our enemie
but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends....
In the adversity of our best friends we often find something that is not exactly displeasing.
Francis, Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) -- Maxim 99, later suppressed...
A community of matter appears to exist throughout the visible universe, for the stars contain many of the elements which exist in the Sun and Earth.
It is remarkable that the elements most widely diffused through the host of stars are some of those most closely connected with the living organisms of our globe, including hydrogen, sodium, magnesium, and iron....