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A nation is formed by the willingness of each of us to share in the responsibility for upholding the common good.
Speaking the truth with eloquent thunder -
A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs-jolted by every pebble in the road.
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A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment.
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A sense of humor is good for you. Have you ever heard of a laughing hyena with heart burn?
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A sense of proportion and humanitarian action are not issues for terrorists. Their aim is that of killing and destroying.
Speech at a summit of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe in Istanbul, Turkey, as quoted in BBC World Service (19 November 1999) -
A sense of wrongdoing is an enhancement of pleasure.
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A silly idea is current that good people do not know what temptation means. This is an obvious lie. Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is.... A man who gives in to temptation after five minutes simply does not know what it would have been like an hour later. That is why bad people, in one sense, know very little about badness. They have lived a sheltered life by always giving in.
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A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself.
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A toddling little girl is a center of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understand each other.
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A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life.
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A word to the wise is not sufficient if it doesn't make sense.
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A world community can exist only with world communication, which means something more than extensive short-wave facilities scattered ;about the globe. It means common understanding, a common tradition, common ideas, and common ideals.
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A writer is not a confectioner, a cosmetic dealer, or an entertainer. He is a man who has signed a contract with his conscious and his sense of duty.
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Academic Marxists, with their elitist sense of superiority to popular taste, are the biggest snobs in America.
Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992) -
Acquire the courage to believe in yourself. Many of the things that you have been taught were at one time the radical ideas of individuals who had the courage to believe what their own hearts and minds told them was true, rather than accept the common beliefs of their day.
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Affairs are easier of entrance than of exit; and it is but common prudence to see our way out before we venture in.
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Ain't no man can avoid being born average, but there ain't no man got to be common.
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All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened.
Papa Hemingway (1966) Pt. 2, Ch. 7
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