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The secret of happiness is to find a congenial monotony.
V. S. Pritchett / Writer
Happiness
Monotony
Secret
Find
Congenial
The Secret Of
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I always made my food congenial to my constitution, and my health was always excellent.
Giacomo Casanova / Author
Brilliant
Constitution
Excellent
Congenial
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I myself love getting cookbooks and novels that some congenial person has already tried and liked.
Cheryl Mendelson / Novelist
Cookbook
Novel
Self Love
Congenial
Cookbooks
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I don't ask myself, is the life congenial to me? But, am I fitted for, am I called to, the Ministry?
Wilfred Owen / Poet
Asks
Ministry
Life Myself Me
Congenial
Fitted
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We have the hardest working people in the world, the most adaptable and the most congenial to employ.
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo / Former President Of The Philippines
Adaptable
Hardest
People
World
Congenial
Employ
Working
Working People
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I have tried to present my sensations in what is the most congenial and impressive form possible to me.
Edward Hopper / Painter
Artist
Form
Impressive
Sensations
Congenial
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How many thorns of human nature are bristling conceits, buds of promise grown sharp for want of congenial climate.
John Burroughs / Essayist
Climate
Human Nature
Promise
Thorns
Buds
Congenial
Grown
Sharp
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Mongolians are epic drinkers and carousers, and in this respect, they are extremely congenial to my own way of thinking.
Lawrence Osborne /
Drinkers
Epic
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I found a certain kind of music congenial to me; it never occurred to me to write music that was academically acceptable.
Carlisle Floyd / Opera Composer
Found
Kind
Writing
Academically
Music Me Never
Congenial
Occurred
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The true doctrine is that labor - systematic, effective, congenial labor - is not only a necessity, but is the source of the highest enjoyment.
Orison Swett Marden / Author
Doctrine
Enjoyment
Labor
Systematic
Congenial
Effective
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I left the Middle West for Schenectady because the General Electric Company offered me a more congenial, better paying job than did anyone else.
Kurt Vonnegut / Writer
Electric
Me Better More
Anyone Else
Better Me More
Congenial
Offered
Paying
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The mysteries of death and birth occupy women far more than is the case with men, to whom political and mercantile speculations are more congenial.
James Stephens / Novelist
Birth
Death Men Women
Case
Congenial
Death Women Men
Mercantile
Mysteries
Occupy
Speculations
Whom
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I found collaborating with congenial doctors about problems that physicists could help solve was very satisfying. I also like educating anybody who would listen!
John Cameron /
Collaborating
Doctors
Satisfying
Solve
Congenial
Educating
Physicists
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I still owe a duty of loyalty to my clients and former clients, so I cannot specify which clients I did not especially find congenial, but the cause was the same.
Floyd Abrams / Attorney
Loyalty
Causes
Clients
Duty
Former
Congenial
Owe
Specify
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Blessed is the man who has some congenial work, some occupation in which he can put his heart, and which affords a complete outlet to all the forces there are in him.
John Burroughs / Essayist
Work
Blessed
Fun
Occupation
Affords
Complete
Congenial
Forces
Outlet
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New York was very congenial to me when I was young, like most people. I met my comrades in arms and partied hard. It's the way it should be, and then you get sick of it.
Lawrence Osborne /
Arms
Me People New
Comrades
Congenial
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That a nation's statuary will reflect beliefs and attitudes that are no longer current or congenial hardly needs arguing. In most instances, it doesn't at all imply a continuing reverence.
Howard Jacobson / Author
Arguing
Continuing
Reverence
Attitudes
Beliefs
Congenial
Current
Hardly
Imply
Reflect
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Certainly the emphasis I place in this chapter on coordination of behavior and cooperation to mutual benefit is something that ought to be very congenial to people in the libertarian tradition.
Robert Nozick / Philosopher
Cooperation
Emphasis
Libertarian
Mutual
Ought
Tradition
Benefit
Chapter
Congenial
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Most of the time, I'm not scared. I get on with life, not because I'm a fatalist, but because that's the most congenial way of dealing with things. Indeed, most of the time, I'm not conscious of dealing with anything.
John Diamond / Journalist
Life Time Way
Congenial
Dealing
Indeed
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I live in Dublin, God knows why. There are greatly more congenial places I could have settled in - Italy, France, Manhattan - but I like the climate here, and Irish light seems to be essential for me and for my writing.
John Banville / Novelist
Climate
Dublin
France
Light
Manhattan
Writing
Congenial
God Light Me
Essential
Greatly
Irish
Italy
Places
Settled
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I did a couple of movies in Brazil, and the actors were incredibly congenial and hung out together a lot. Even the biggest stars would do radio commercials - they're not put on a pedestal like they are in the United States.
Alan Arkin / Actor
Brazil
Hung
Pedestal
Commercials
Congenial
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After Ann Godoff, who was editor-in-chief at Random House, left and went to Viking, I got to know Viking and the people there, and liked them very much. I also found a wonderful editor there, Wendy Wolf. It's a very congenial press.
Elaine Pagels / Professor
Congenial
Editor
Wolf
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The cocoa-nut palm grows best near salt water, no matter how loose and sandy the soil is, and in these congenial circumstances needs neither manure nor care of any kind. It bends lovingly toward the sea and drops its ripe fruit into it.
Isabella Bird / Writer
Circumstances
Fruit
Grows
Manure
Ripe
Salt
Sea
Soil
Palm
Bends
Congenial
Drops
Loose
Lovingly
Near
Neither
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I don't have a problem with delegation. I love to delegate. I am either lazy enough, or busy enough, or trusting enough, or congenial enough, that the notion leaving tasks in someone else's lap doesn't just sound wise to me, it sounds attractive.
John Ortberg / Author
Wise
Attractive
Busy
Lap
Lazy
Leaving
Notion
Sound
Tasks
Congenial
Delegate
Either
Trusting
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The majority of them give the impression of being men who have been drafted into the job during a period of martial law and are only waiting for the end of the emergency to get back to a really congenial occupation such as slum demolition or debt collecting.
Alan Brien / Journalist
Collecting
Debt
Impression
Majority
Occupation
Waiting
Congenial
Drafted
Period
Emergency
Martial
Slum
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Appetite is essentially insatiable, and where it operates as a criterion of both action and enjoyment (that is, everywhere in the Western world since the sixteenth century) it will infallibly discover congenial agencies (mechanical and political) of expression.
Marshall Mcluhan / Philosopher
Action
Agency
Appetite
Enjoyment
Expression
Insatiable
Political
Western
Western World
Everywhere
Agencies
Congenial
Criterion
Discover
Essentially
Infallibly
Mechanical
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The Master of Ceremonies in 'Bridge and Tunnel' is a wonderful man, if I do say so myself. I talk about all the characters in the third person. But, he is a really congenial... just a good stand-up guy, who happens to be Pakistani-American. He's been here for years.
Sarah Jones /
Good Myself Man
Bridge
Ceremonies
Congenial
Master
Third
Tunnel
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The higher mental development of woman, the less possible it is for her to meet a congenial male who will see in her, not only sex, but also the human being, the friend, the comrade and strong individuality, who cannot and ought not lose a single trait of her character.
Emma Goldman / Writer
Comrade
Development
Higher
Individuality
Ought
Sex
Single
Male
Friend
Congenial
Trait
Human Being
Lose
Meet
Mental
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Many aspects of the writing life have changed since I published my first book, in the 1960s. It is more corporate, more driven by profits and marketing, and generally less congenial - but my day is the same: get out of bed, procrastinate, sit down at my desk, try to write something.
Paul Theroux / Film Writer
Bed
Book
Corporate
Driven
Marketing
Writing
Aspects
Congenial
Desk
Procrastinate
Published
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I shall not miss the hectoring and backbiting and the lack of generosity towards fallen foes, but I will miss the sheer clubability of parliament. If one fancies a coffee or a meal or a drink then it is always possible to find at least one person out of 646 whose company is congenial.
Ann Widdecombe / British Politician
Coffee
Fallen
Generosity
Parliament
Sheer
Always Will Find
At Least One
Always Will Person
Congenial
Foes
Meal
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What could an unsanctified man do in Heaven, if by any chance he got there? Let that question be fairly looked in the face and fairly answered. No man can possibly be happy in a place where he is not in his element and where all around him is not congenial to his tastes, habits and character.
J. C. Ryle / Bishop Of Liverpool
Happy
Chance
Men
Character
Heaven
Fairly
Face
Answered
Be Happy
Congenial
Tastes
Element
Habits
Looked
Possibly
Question
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There must be an alternative between Hollywood and New York, between those two places psychically as well as geographically. The University of Iowa tries to offer such a community, congenial to the young writer, with his uneasiness about writing as an honorable career, or with his excess of ego about calling himself a writer.
Paul Engle / Poet
New York
Excess
Hollywood
Honorable
Iowa
University
Writing
Alternative
Congenial
Places
Tries
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