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Philosophy is a bully that talks loud when the danger is at a distant; but, the moment she is pressed hard by an enemy, she is nowhere to be found and leaves the brunt of the battle to be fought by her steady, humble comrade, religion.
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Philosophy is an elegant thing, if anyone modestly meddles with it; but if they are conversant with it more than is becoming, it corrupts them.
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Philosophy is nothing but discretion.
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Phones remain a critical component of the Microsoft device portfolio and an important piece of our mobility strategy, but a restructuring is in order.
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Physically my brain is in great shape. My motor functions are fine, but I think going through the whole ordeal... coming pretty close to death, may have affected my priorities.
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Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it.
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Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory.
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Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one's soul.
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Plain women know more about men than beautiful ones do. But beautiful women don't need to know about men. It's the men who have to know about beautiful women.
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Planning ahead is a measure of class. The rich and even the middle class plan for future generations, but the poor can plan ahead only a few weeks or days.
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Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.
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Plays are so much more special if they've never ever had a production, but I think you can really work on a play and make it better with each production.
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Pleasant it is, when over a great sea the winds trouble the waters, to gaze from shore upon another's great tribulation; not because any man's troubles are a delectable joy, but because to perceive you are free of them yourself is pleasant.
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Please try to remember that what they believe, as well as what they do and cause you to endure does not testify to your inferiority but to their inhumanity.
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Pleasure can be supported by an illusion; but happiness rests upon truth.
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Pleasure is nothing else but the intermission of pain.
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Pleasure may come from illusion, but happiness can come only of reality.
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Plenty of men can do good work for a spurt and with immediate promotion in mind, but for promotion you want a man in whom good work has become a habit.
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Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence.
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Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art.
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