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A people numerically large may attain to ways of thought and enterprise that no political censure can reduce to a minimum; but under narrower conditions, it may easily come about that the whole people will fall asleep.
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A people's literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of them. The writings of the day show the quality of the people as no historical reconstruction can.
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A person can stand almost anything except a succession of ordinary days.
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A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.
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A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
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A person who can't pay gets another person who can't pay to guarantee that he can pay. Like a person with two wooden legs getting another person with two wooden legs to guarantee that he has got two natural legs. It don't make either of them able to do a walking-match.
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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.
Source: Wings of Fire -
A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you.
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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 play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can't be much good.
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A playwright lives in an occupied country. And if you can't live that way you don't stay.
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A poem records emotions and moods that lie beyond normal language, that can only be patched together and hinted at metaphorically.
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A poet can survive everything but a misprint.
Source: The Pall Mall Gazette (14 oktober 1886) he Children of the Poets -
A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and understanding.
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A political convention is not a place where you can come away with any trace of faith in human nature.
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A politician is an animal which can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground.
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A president and a party that can provide insurance for 31 million more Americans is far preferable to most voters than a party that only says, 'No.'
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A prince or general can best demonstrate his genius by managing a campaign exactly to suit his objectives and his resources, doing neither too much nor too little.
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A professional; is someone who can do his best work when he doesn't feel like it.
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A profoundly disturbing thing you discover very quickly traveling in Cuba is that the most dangerous person for Cubans isn't the police or even the secret police; it's their neighbor. Anyone can report you for anything 'outside' the revolution - even if you haven't done it yet.
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