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The one function that TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if there were.
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The one thing men have not learned to do is to stick up for their own instinctive feelings, against the things they are taught.
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The one woman who never gives herself is your free woman, who is always giving herself.
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The Oscars demonstrate the will of the people to control and judge those they have elected to stand above them (much, perhaps, as in bygone days, an election celebrated the same).
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The painter should paint not only what he has in front of him, but also what he sees inside himself.
Caspar David Friedrich and romantic painting (1994 edition), Vilo International -
The perch swallows the grub-worm, the pickerel swallows the perch, and the fisherman swallows the pickerel; and so all the chinks in the scale of being are filled.
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The pleasure we feel in music springs from the obedience which is in it.
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The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry.
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The poker player learns that sometimes both science and common sense are wrong; that the bumblebee can fly; that, perhaps, one should never trust an expert; that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of by those with an academic bent.
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The proper function of a critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.
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The purity men love is like the mists which envelope the earth, and not like the azure ether beyond.
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The purpose of debates is to explore issues, not end them.
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The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except in a picture book?
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The real way of living is to answer to one's wants.
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The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.
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The rich man is always sold to the institution which makes him rich. Absolutely speaking, the more money, the less virtue.
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The richest genius, like the most fertile soil, when uncultivated, shoots up into the rankest weeds.
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