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The Past - the dark unfathomed retrospect! The teeming gulf - the sleepers and the shadows! The past! the infinite greatness of the past! For what is the present after all but a growth out of the past?
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The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.
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The past is a ghost, the future a dream, and all we ever have is now.
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The past is all holy to us; the dead are all holy; even they that were wicked when alive.
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The path of least resistance makes all rivers, and some men, crooked.
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The people around us are at the top of their craft, and we benefit from that.
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The people have spoken. Their decision is sovereign. We all respect it... I wish good luck to those who will now govern France.
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The people who get into trouble in our company are those who carry around the anchor of the past.
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The perch swallows the grub-worm, the pickerel swallows the perch, and the fisherman swallows the pickerel; and so all the chinks in the scale of being are filled.
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The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.
Once Around the Sun (1951) -
The Perfect Way is only difficult for those who pick and choose. Do not like, do not dislike; all will then be clear. Make a hairbreadth difference, and Heaven and Earth are set apart.
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The perfecting of one's self is the fundamental base of all progress and all moral development.
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The performances of my works in the last 10 years are probably equal to all the previous years put together. There are so many venues now and there is a completely new public for opera that's grown up outside of the traditional core opera public.
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The person who has the will to undergo all labor may win any goal.
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The person who knows one thing and does it better than anyone else, even if it only be the art of raising lentils, receives the crown he merits. If he raises all his energy to that end, he is a benefactor of mankind and its rewarded as such.
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The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another's keeping .
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The person who sends out positive thoughts activates the world around him positively and draws back to himself positive results.
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The person with the best job in the country is the vice president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, ''How is the president?''
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The pest of society are the egotist, they are dull and bright, sacred and profane, course and fine. It is a disease that like the flu falls on all constitutions.
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