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The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world.
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The Sun, the hearth of affection and life, pours burning love on the delighted earth.
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The surface of the earth is the shore of the cosmic ocean.... Recently, we've managed to wade a little way out, maybe ankle-deep, and the water seems inviting.
Cosmos: A Personal Voyage (1990) 03 min 55 sec -
The survival of liberty in our land increasingly depends on the success of liberty in other lands. The best hope for peace in our world is the expansion of freedom in all the world.
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The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour. Sobriety diminishes, discriminates, and says no; drunkenness expands, unites, and says yes.
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The sweetest noise on earth, a woman's tongue; A string which hath no discord.
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The sweetest of all sounds is that of the voice of the woman we love.
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The taste of defeat has a richness of experience all its own.
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The television critic, whatever his pretensions, does not labor in the same vineyard as those he criticizes; his grapes are all sour.
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The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity.
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The tendency of life is not the preservation of the species, but solely the preservation of each individual organism, as long as it is in existence at all, and is able to carry on its life processes.
Nervous Ills their Cause and Cure (1922) -
The tension between centrality, on the one hand, and competition, on the other, is probably the oldest of all market structure issues.
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The test to which all methods of treatment are finally brought is whether they are lucrative to doctors or not.
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The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all.
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The theatre, for all its artifices, depicts life in a sense more truly than history, because the medium has a kindred movement to that of real life, though an artificial setting and form.
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The theory of rights enables us to rise and overthrow obstacles, but not to found a strong and lasting accord between all the elements which compose the nation.
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The theory that can absorb the greatest number of facts, and persist in doing so, generation after generation, through all changes of opinion and detail, is the one that must rule all observation.
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The thin and precarious crust of decency is all that separates any civilization, however impressive, from the hell of anarchy or systematic tyranny.
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The thing about Iceland is that we are trapped there anyway, all of us. We have been trapped there for thousands of years.
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The thing about New York is it's like London: you want to go to the boutique places. You can go to the big department stores - Barney's, Bloomingdales and all that stuff - but I like the little stores.
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