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The individual is capable of both great compassion and great indifference. He has it within his means to nourish the former and outgrow the latter.
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The individual who can do something that the world wants done will, in the end, make his way regardless of his race.
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The individual who has to justify his existence by his own efforts is in eternal bondage to himself.
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The intellectual is constantly betrayed by his vanity. Godlike he blandly assumes that he can express everything in words; whereas the things one loves, lives, and dies for are not, in the last analysis completely expressible in words.
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The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality, and even then not all the time.
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The journalists have constructed for themselves a little wooden chapel, which they also call the Temple of Fame, in which they put up and take down portraits all day long and make such a hammering you can't hear yourself speak.
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The judge is not the knight-errant, roaming at will in pursuit of his own ideal of beauty or of goodness.
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The juvenile delinquent does not feel his disturbed personality. The intelligent man does not feel his intelligence or the introvert his introversion.
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The key to every man is his thought. Sturdy and defying though he look, he has a helm which he obeys, which is the idea after which all his facts are classified. He can only be reformed by showing him a new idea which commands his own.
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The keynote of American civilization is a sort of warm-hearted vulgarity. The Americans have none of the irony of the English, none of their cool poise, none of their manner. But they do have friendliness. Where an Englishman would give you his card, an American would very likely give you his shirt.
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The King has a right to make political remarks. He is a Thai citizen and has his rights and freedoms under the Constitution. Each of you is under the Constitution, and so is the King. I am using my freedom under the Constitution.
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The king is the least independent man in his dominions; the beggar the most so.
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The last 16 years of my daddy's life, he got to work for me, and that made him his own boss and he like that.
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The last time I saw him he was walking down lover's lane holding his own hand.
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The laughter of man is more terrible than his tears, and takes more forms - hollow, heartless, mirthless, maniacal.
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The lead singer for Deerhunter, Bradford Cox... I don't like saying people are geniuses or whatever, but I just think that dude is so good at every single thing he does. He stays within his genre, but I think he does so well experimenting with stuff.
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The learned fool writes his nonsense in better language than the unlearned, but it is still nonsense.
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The lecturer should give the audience full reason to believe that all his powers have been exerted for their pleasure and instruction.
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The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
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The lesson intended by an author is hardly ever the lesson the world chooses to learn from his book.
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