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The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique.
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The group who really could benefit from more protein is not fit young gym-goers but older people, who seem to be at much greater risk of protein deficiency.
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The guns of the big events rumble through our pages, but the tiny firecrackers are constantly hissing and popping there as well; it appears that much of my life as a journalist has been devoted to sedulously setting off firecrackers.
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The happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered but a general effect of pleasing impression.
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The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.
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The happiness of most people we know is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.
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The hardest achievement in acting - in my opinion, anyway - is nailing a role that absolutely nobody else could have played. Pacino owned Michael Corleone... but DeNiro could have owned it as well. Who else, though, but Val Kilmer could have nailed Jim Morrison? Does anyone besides Will Ferrell pull off Ron Burgundy?
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The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a fountain; to show them we love them not when we feel like it, but when they do.
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The hardest times for me were not when people challenged what I said, but when I felt my voice was not heard.
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The hatred of the youth culture for adult society is not a disinterested judgment but a terror-ridden refusal to be hooked into the, if you will, ecological chain of breathing, growing, and dying. It is the demand, in other words, to remain children.
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The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.
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The head never rules the heart, but just becomes its partner in crime.
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981) -
The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.
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The heights charm us, but the steps do not; with the mountain in our view we love to walk the plains.
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The herd seek out the great, not for their sake but for their influence; and the great welcome them out of vanity or need.
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The hero and the coward both feel the same thing, but the hero uses his fear, projects it onto his opponent, while the coward runs. It's the same thing, fear, but it's what you do with it that matters.
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The heroes of the world community are not those who withdraw when difficulties ensue, not those who can envision neither the prospect of success nor the consequence of failure - but those who stand the heat of battle, the fight for world peace through the United Nations.
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The higher goal of spiritual living is not to amass a wealth of information, but to face sacred moments
The Sabbath (1951) p. 6
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