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A number of current theoretical explorations will turn out to be passing fancies...
Source: Inward Bound : Of Matter and Forces in the Physical World (1988) p. 45 -
A pathological business, writing, don't you think? Just look what a writer actually does: all that unnatural tense squatting and hunching, all those rituals: pathological!
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A peace above all earhtly dignities: A still and quiet conscience.
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A person is never happy till their vague strivings has itself marked out its proper limitations.
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A person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn and not easily mended.
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A person with belief never grovels before anyone, whining and whimpering that it's all too much, that he lacks support, that he is being treated unfairly. Instead, such a person tackes problems head on and then affirms, 'As a child of God, I am greater than anything that can happen to me.
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A person without a shadow should keep out of the sun, that is the only safe and rational plan.
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A pint can't hold a quart - if it holds a pint it is doing all that can be expected of it.
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A pity beyond all telling is hid in the heart of love.
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A poem may be an instance of morality, of social conditions, of psychological history; it may instance all its qualities, but never one of them alone, nor any two or three; never less than all.
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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
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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 real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
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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 roast is like a get-together where people come down and talk about you and dog you out, the way you came up, the knucklehead things that you did, stuff like that.
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A Roman divorced from his wife, being highly blamed by his friends, who demanded, ''Was she not chaste? Was she not fair? Was she not fruitful?'' holding out his shoe, asked them whether it was not new and well made. ''Yet,'' added he, ''none of you can tell where it pinches me.
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A safe but sometimes chilly way of recalling the past is to force open a crammed drawer. If you are searching for anything in particular you don't find it, but something falls out at the back that is often more interesting.
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A satisfied customer is the best business strategy of all.
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