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A poem records emotions and moods that lie beyond normal language, that can only be patched together and hinted at metaphorically.
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A poet can survive everything but a misprint.
The Pall Mall Gazette (14 oktober 1886) he Children of the Poets -
A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and understanding.
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A political convention is not a place where you can come away with any trace of faith in human nature.
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A politician is an animal which can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground.
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A president and a party that can provide insurance for 31 million more Americans is far preferable to most voters than a party that only says, 'No.'
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A president's hardest task is not to do what is right, but to know what is right.
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A prince or general can best demonstrate his genius by managing a campaign exactly to suit his objectives and his resources, doing neither too much nor too little.
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A professional; is someone who can do his best work when he doesn't feel like it.
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A profoundly disturbing thing you discover very quickly traveling in Cuba is that the most dangerous person for Cubans isn't the police or even the secret police; it's their neighbor. Anyone can report you for anything 'outside' the revolution - even if you haven't done it yet.
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A promising young man should go into politics so that he can go on promising for the rest of his life.
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A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you're looking down, you can't see something that's above you.
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A real Christian is a person who can give his pet parrot to the town gossip.
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A recipe is not an exact formula, but it does need a certain structure. When the bones are right, you can dress it in many ways.
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A relationship is like a rose, How long it lasts, no one knows; Love can erase an awful past, Love can be yours, you'll see at last; To feel that love, it makes you sigh, To have it leave, you'd rather die; You hope you've found that special rose, 'Cause you love and care for the one you chose.
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A relationship, I think, is like a shark, you know? It has to constantly move forward or it dies. And I think what we got on our hands is a dead shark.
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A right is not what someone gives you, it's what no one can take away from you.
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A Roman divorced from his wife, being highly blamed by his friends, who demanded, ''Was she not chaste? Was she not fair? Was she not fruitful?'' holding out his shoe, asked them whether it was not new and well made. ''Yet,'' added he, ''none of you can tell where it pinches me.
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A salesman must also have flexible goals. You may say, ''I want to sell 10 accounts this week,'' and you sell five. You're ready to die. But, you tell yourself, ''Five isn't too bad. You know, next week maybe I'll sell 10.
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