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To most people loneliness is a doom. Yet loneliness is the very thing which God has chosen to be one of the schools of training for His very own. It is the fire that sheds the dross and reveals the gold.
― Bernard M. Baruch
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To mourn a mischief that is past and gone is the next way to draw new mischief on.
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To mourn and bewail your ill-fortune, when you will gain a tear from those who listen, this is worth the trouble.
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To move forward, what's required is a unified space agenda based on exploration, science, development, commerce, and security.
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To my mind ClickThings, and John Underwood are world champion caliber, and I am delighted to have the opportunity to partner with them.
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To my mind, the two most fascinating subjects in the universe are sex and the eighteenth century.
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To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends.
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To never see a fool you lock yourself in your room and smash the looking-glass.
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To not sing with an orchestra, to not be able to communicate through my voice, which I've done all my life, and not to be able to phrase lyrics and give people that kind of joy, I think I would be totally devastated.
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To note an artist's limitations is but to define his talent. A reporter can write equally well about everything that is presented to his view, but a creative writer can do his best only with what lies within the range and character of his deepest sympathies.
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To nourish and raise children against odds is in any time, any place, more valuable than to fix bolts in cars or design nuclear weapons.
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To oblige persons often costs little and helps much.
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To offer the complexities of life as an excuse for not addressing oneself to the simpler, more manageable (trivial) aspects of daily existence is a perversity often indulged in by artists, husbands, intellectuals - and critics of the Women's Movement.
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To overturn orthodoxy is no easier in science than in philosophy, religion, economics, or any of the other disciplines through which we try to comprehend the world and the society in which we live.
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To paint comic books as childish and illiterate is lazy. A lot of comic books are very literate - unlike most films.
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To persuade is more trouble than to dominate, and the powerful seldom take this trouble if they can avoid it.
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To philosophize is only another way of being afraid and leads hardly anywhere but to cowardly make-believe.
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To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces and record the qualities of nature and humanity which live or are latent in all things.
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To pin your hopes upon the future is to consign those hopes to a hypothesis, which is to say, a nothingness. Here and now is what we must contend with.
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To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace.
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