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A society that has made ''nostalgia'' a marketable commodity on the cultural exchange quickly repudiates the suggestion that life in the past was in any important way better than life today.
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A statesman is any politician it's considered safe to name a school after.
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A stop sign is a gift for you to learn that moving in the same direction won't take you any place new.
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A strange and somewhat impassive physiognomy is often, perhaps, an advantage to an orator, or leader of any sort, because it helps to fix the eye and fascinate the mind.
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A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for the desire of the end will point out the means.
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A surprising number of American skyjackers were not yet old enough to drink or sometimes even drive. These adolescents were generally inept at planning their crimes, and few of their capers met with any success; most seemed to end within moments of starting, usually after a fatherly pilot convinced the nervous teen to hand over his gun.
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A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.
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A Train was born without any effort - if was like writing a letter to a friend.
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A transcendent being can be any miracle.
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A virtuous and well-disposed person, like a good metal, the more he is fired, the more he is fined; the more he is opposed, the more he is approved: wrongs may well try him, and touch him, but cannot imprint in him any false stamp.
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A woman finds the natural lay of the land almost unconsciously; and not feeling it incumbent on her to be guide and philosopher to any successor, she takes little pains to mark the route by which she is making her ascent.
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A woman who gives any advantage to a man may expect a lover - but will sooner or later find a tyrant.
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About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.
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Absence is one of the most useful ingredients of family life, and to dose it rightly is an art like any other.
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Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.
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According to my principles, every master has his true and certain value. Praise and criticism cannot change any of that. Only the work itself praises and criticizes the master, and therefore I leave to everyone his own value.
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Achieve success in any area of life by identifying the optimum strategies and repeating them until they become habits.
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Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law: all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and who is to acquire it.
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Actually, the kids at school don't treat me any differently at all just because I'm on television.
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Actually, today I had to defend the Bush Administration in France again. They refuse to accept, because of their political ideology, that he has actually done more than any American President for Africa. But it's empirically so.
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