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Civil servants and priests, soldiers and ballet-dancers, schoolmasters and police constables, Greek museums and Gothic steeples, civil list and services list - the common seed within which all these fabulous beings slumber in embryo is taxation.
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Civilization is maintained by a very few people in a small number of places and we need only some bombs and a few prisons to blot it out altogether.
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Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation applied to life.
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Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insinuating and insidious something that elicits secrets just like love or liquor.
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Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.
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Deliberate with caution, but act with decision; and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness.
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Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.
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Do not go gentle into the good night. Old age should burn and rage at close of day.
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Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
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Don't be limited by the expectations of others. You can always be better and do more.
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Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.
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During the last century, and part of the one before, it was widely held that there was an unreconcilable conflict between knowledge and belief.
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Every great work, every great accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement.
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Everybody likes to go their own way - to choose their own time and manner of devotion.
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Fashion is to please your eye. Shapes and proportions are for your intellect.
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For what are the classics but the noblest thoughts of man? They are the only oracles which are not decayed, and there are such answers to the most modern inquiry in them as Delphi and Dodona never gave. We might as well omit to study Nature because she is old.
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Fortunately art is a community effort, a small but select community living in a spiritualized world endeavoring to interpret the wars and the solitudes of the flesh.
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Frankly, I think if I won the lottery and won a billion dollars, I'd still want to continue doing this job. I love expressing myself through it. I've gotten to really love acting. And I've gotten to know Big Bird from the inside out so thoroughly it's like playing my kid. I can't imagine deliberately stopping.
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Friends make pretence of following to the grave but before one is in it, their minds are turned and making the best of their way back to life and living people and things they understand.
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Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.
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