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A critic is a man who knows the way, but can't drive the car.
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A culture must be reasonably stable, but it must also change, and it will presumably be strongest if it can avoid excessive respect for tradition and fear of novelty on the one hand and excessively rapid change on the other.
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A footman may swear; but he cannot swear like a lord. He can swear as often: but can he swear with equal delicacy, propriety, and judgment?
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A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely.
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A good model can advance fashion by ten years.
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A good teacher can inspire hope, ignite the imagination, and instill a love of learning.
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A guy walks up to me and asks 'What's Punk?'. So I kick over a garbage can and say 'That's punk!'. So he kicks over the garbage can and says 'That's Punk?', and I say 'No that's trendy!
Reported in Matt Doeden, Green Day: Keeping Their Edge (2006) -
A judgment about life has no meaning except the truth of the one who speaks last, and the mind is at ease only at the moment when everyone is shouting at once and no one can hear a thing.
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A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.
The problem of pain p. 41 -
A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.
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A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.
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A man who doesn't spend time with his family can never be a real man.
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A strong nation, like a strong person, can afford to be gentle, firm, thoughtful, and restrained. It can afford to extend a helping hand to others. It's a weak nation, like a weak person, that must behave with bluster and boasting and rashness and other signs of insecurity.
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A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.
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A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.
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A woman can look both moral and exciting - if she also looks as if it was quite a struggle.
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A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.
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