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“When it came time to find employment, I set my sights on becoming an engineer at a home electronics manufacturer, a field that was closely related to my major at university.”

Home Fields Becoming Majors Sight University Employment Related Engineers Electronics

Author:Koichi Tanaka

“A great many people never really discover themselves until ruin stares them in the face. They do not seem to know how to bring out their reserves until they are overtaken by an overwhelming disaster, or until the sight of their blighted prospects and of the wreck of their homes and happiness stirs them to the very center of their beings.... There is something in defeat which puts new determination into a man of mettle.”

People Knows Men Home Seems Faces Know How Determination Sight Defeat Disaster Ruins Staring Great Men Overwhelming Reserves Wrecks Being There Prospects Mettle

Book:The Optimistic Life

Source: The Optimistic Life

“I have made myself two or three caps to wear of evenings since I came home, and they save me a world of torment as to hair-dressing, which at present gives me no trouble beyond washing and brushing, for my long hair is always plaited up out of sight, and my short hair curls well enough to want no papering.”

World Want Giving Wells Long Made Two Enough Home Three Trouble Hair Sight Give Me Evening Torment Dressings Caps Washing Curls Save Me Long Hair Brushing Short Hair

Book:Jane Austen's Letters

Source: Jane Austen's Letters

“The trouble is that once America goes off to war, it can't very well return without having fought one. If it doesn't find its enemy, for the sake of the enraged folks back home, it will have to manufacture one. Once war begins, it will develop a momentum, a logic and a justification of its own, and we'll lose sight of why it's being fought in the first place.”

Ifs Firsts Wells War Home America Loses Enemy Trouble Return Logic Sight Sake Folks Justification Momentum Back Home

Book:Power Politics

Source: Power Politics

“The Europeans are themselves blind who describe fortune without sight. No first-rate beauty ever had finer eyes, or saw more clearly. They who have no other trade but seeking their fortune need never hope to find her; coquette-like, she flies from her close pursuers, and at last fixes on the plodding mechanic who stays at home and minds his business.”

Needs Mind Firsts Home Eye Lasts Saws Sight Blind Trade Fortune Rate Seeking Mechanic Stay At Home Coquette

Book:Miscellaneous Works: To which is Prefixed Some Account of His Life and Writings

Source: Miscellaneous Works: To which is Prefixed Some Account of His Life and Writings

“I like to see cats in movement. A galloping cat is a fine sight. See it cross the road in a streak, cursed by the drivers of motor cars and buses, dodging the butcher's bicycle, coming safe to the kerb and bellying under its home gate.”

Home Car Movement Fine Safe Crosses Cat Sight Gates Drivers Bus Motor Bicycle Cursed Streaks Butchers Galloping Motor Cars

Author:Stevie Smith