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Of course, we also have the responsibility to win games and the difficulty in the job is to combine both.
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Of course, we wore silly outfits, the pictures were corny, and some people still focus on that. But ABBA wasn't a big intellectual thing. We were a pop group.
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Of every ten persons who talk about you, nine will say something bad, and the tenth will say something good in a bad way.
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Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain.
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Of present fame think little, and of future less; the praises that we receive after we are buried, like the flowers that are strewed over our grave, may be gratifying to the living, but they are nothing to the dead.
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Of rich men it telleth, and strange is the story how they have, and they hanker, and grip far and wide; And they live and they die, and the earth and its glory has been but a burden they scarce might abide.
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Of that freedom [freedom of thought and speech] one may say that it is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom.
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Of the creative spirits that flourished in Concord, Massachusetts, during the middle of the nineteenth century, it might be said that Hawthorne loved men but felt estranged from them, Emerson loved ideas even more than men, and Thoreau loved himself.
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Of the significant and pleasurable experiences of life only the simplest are open indiscriminately to all. The rest cannot be had except by those who have undergone a suitable training.
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Of the three prerequisites of genius; the first is soul; the second is soul; and the third is soul.
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Of what use were the arts if they were only the reproduction and the imitation of life?
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Of what use, however, is a general certainty that an insect will not walk with his head hindmost, when what you need to know is the play of inward stimulus that sends him hither and thither in a network of possible paths?
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Often a certain abdication of prudence and foresight is an element of success.
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Often I look back and see that I had been many kinds of a fool-and that I had been happy in being this or that kind of fool.
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Often it seems a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
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Often it takes some calamity to make us live in the present. Then suddenly we wake up and see all the mistakes we have made.
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Often people, when they're confronted with a poem, it's like someone who keep saying 'what is the meaning of this? What is the meaning of this?' And that dulls us to the other pleasures poetry offers.
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Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid.
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Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act.
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Often while reading a book one feels that the author would have preferred to paint rather than write; one can sense the pleasure he derives from describing a landscape or a person, as if he were painting what he is saying, because deep in his heart he would have preferred to use brushes and colors.
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