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'Suffering should not make us bitter people,' my mother once said, 'it should make us better comforters.' Young people need to hear this from those who have walked before them, because someday they'll be walking those same steps, but there may not be anyone following behind.
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'Therefore' is a word the poet must not know.
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'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.
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'Tis not in mortals to command success, but we'll do more, Sempronius, we'll deserve it.
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'Tis not need we know our every thought or see the work shop where each mask is wrought wherefrom we view the world of box and pit, careless of wear, just so the mask shall fit and serve our jape's turn for a night or two.
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'Tis not seasonable to call a man traitor, that has an army at his heels.
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'Tis not the dying for a faith that's so hard... 'Tis the living up to it that's difficult.
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'Tis not what man does which exalts him, but what man Would do!
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'Vogue' is a very specific world. You are 'Vogue,' or not 'Vogue.'
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... ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.
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... the best way to win was to not need to win. The best performances are accomplished when you are relaxed and free of doubt.
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...a state is not the same thing as a society, although the Greeks and Romans thought it was. A state is an organization of power on a territorial basis.
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...empires and civilizations do not collapse because of deficiencies on the military or the political levels.
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...human beings have religious needs. They have a need for a feeling of certitude in their minds about things they cannot control and they do not fully understand, and with humility, they admit they do not understand...
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...they give us vicarious satisfactions for many of our frustrations....People need exercise; they do not need to watch other people exercise... Another vicarious satisfaction is sexy magazines; this is vicarious sex. To anyone rushing to buy one, I'd like to say, The real thing is better.
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...we no longer have intellectually satisfying arrangements in our educational system, in our arts, humanities or anything else; instead we have slogans and ideologies. An ideology is a religious or emotional expression; it is not an intellectual expression.
Oscar Iden Lecture Series, Lecture 3: The State of Individuals (1976)
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