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A soul without a high aim is like a ship without a rudder.
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A superb tenor voice, like a silver trumpet muffled in silk.
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A theory is no more like a fact than a photograph is like a person.
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A tie is like kissing your sister.
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A time would come when men should be able to stretch out their eyes... They should see the planets like our earth.
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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 translation of a work of literature is like playing a violin concerto on the piano.
Source: The Believer Interview 20 oct 2016 -
A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.
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A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy.
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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 weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things, but cannot receive great ones.
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A well-run restaurant is like a winning baseball team. It makes the most of every crew member's talent and takes advantage of every split-second opportunity to speed up service.
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A West Virginia 10 is a California 4. Or at least that's what legend tells us: The Legend of Dr. Feelgood. Plastic surgery has a permanent home here, which is why Nancy Pelosi loves our Botoxed beaches. Beverly Hills looks like a moving Madame Tussauds.
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A woman is like a teabag - only in hot water do you realize how strong she is.
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A woman who looks like a girl and thinks like a man is the best sort, the most enjoyable to be and the most pleasurable to have and to hold.
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A woman's chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats.
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A woman's heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet; her happiness is to be made as cakes are, by a fixed receipt.
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A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.
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A young and vital child knows no limit to his own will, and it is the only reality to him. It is not that he wants at the outset to fight other wills, but that they simply do not exist for him. Like the artist, he goes forth to the work of creation, gloriously alone.
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A young girl was asked: ''Whose preaching brought you to Christ?'' ''It wasn't anybody's preaching; it was Aunt Mary's practicing,'' he replied. The beginning of anxiety is the end of faith, and the beginning of true faith is the end of anxiety.
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