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A political leader must keep looking over his shoulder all the time to see if the boys are still there. If they aren't still there, he's no longer a political leader.
Bernard M. Baruch
American investor, philanthropist, statesman, and political consultant (1870 - 1965) -
A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
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A radical is one of whom people say ''He goes too far.'' A conservative, on the other hand, is one who ''doesn't go far enough.'' Then there is the reactionary, ''one who doesn't go at all.'' All these terms are more or less objectionable, wherefore we have
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A refined simplicity is the characteristic of all high bred deportment, in every country, and a considerate humanity should be the aim of all beneath it.
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A remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he is really very good in spite of all the people who say he is very good.
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A satisfied customer is the best business strategy of all.
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A serious problem in America is the gap between academe and the mass media, which is our culture. Professors of humanities, with all their leftist fantasies, have little direct knowledge of American life and no impact whatever on public policy.
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A shocking crime was committed on the unscrupulous initiative of few individuals, with the blessing of more, and amid the passive acquiescence of all.
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A society in which all men and women would become people of substantive reason, whose independent reasoning would have structural consequences for their societies, its history and thus for their own life fates.
The Sociological Imagination (1959) -
A society made up of individuals who were all capable of original thought would probably be unendurable.
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A song will outlive all sermons in the memory.
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A songwriter writes songs all the time, whereas just writing a song can be done by anyone, anytime.
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A surprising number of American skyjackers were not yet old enough to drink or sometimes even drive. These adolescents were generally inept at planning their crimes, and few of their capers met with any success; most seemed to end within moments of starting, usually after a fatherly pilot convinced the nervous teen to hand over his gun.
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A t American weddings, the quality of the food is in inverse proportion to the social position of the bride and groom.
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A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and an action which does not proceed from a thought is nothing at all.
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A tiny blue dot set in a sunbeam. Here it is. That's where we live. That's home. We humans are one species and this is our world. It is our responsibility to cherish it. Of all the worlds in our solar system, the only one so far as we know, graced by life.
Cosmos: A Personal Voyage (1990) 58 min 56 sec -
A traveler of taste will notice that the wise are polite all over the world, but the fool only at home.
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A true friend unbosoms freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.
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A true measure of your worth includes all the benefits others have gained from your success.
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A truly creative person rids him or herself of all self-imposed limitations.
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