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The superficiality of the American is the result of his hustling. It needs leisure to think things out; it needs leisure to mature. People in a hurry cannot think, cannot grow, nor can they decay. They are preserved in a state of perpetual puerility.
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The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action.
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The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.
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The tartness of his face sours ripe grapes.
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The task of a priest, in some respects, may be different today, but the principles upon which Herbert built his life as a priest are of universal application.
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The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.
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The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.
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The teacher gives not of his wisdom, but rather of his faith and lovingness.
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The television critic, whatever his pretensions, does not labor in the same vineyard as those he criticizes; his grapes are all sour.
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The tenderest spot in a man's make-up is sometimes the bald spot on top of his head.
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The terror of the atom age is not the violence of the new power but the speed of man's adjustment to it - the speed of his acceptance.
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The test of a preacher is that his congregation goes away saying, not, 'What a lovely sermon!' but 'I will do something.
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The thing about grief is that it's a roller coaster - it's up, it's down. The emotions sometimes take over.
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The thing that teases the mind over and over for years, and at last gets itself put down rightly on paper - whether little or great, it belongs to Literature.
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The things shamans deal with are extremely practical. They break down parameters of normal historical reality. Magical passes are just one aspect of that.
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The thinnest I've ever been was after I had my appendix out, during the London run of The Seagull. I went down to 112 pounds and realized my brain doesn't work when I'm that thin, so I can't do my job. That's why, when I came out here, I never had that whole Hollywood pressure thing.
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The three most important things a man has are, briefly, his private parts, his money, and his religious opinions.
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The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.
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The time comes when each one of us has to give up as illusions the expectations which, in his youth, he pinned upon his fellow-men, and when he may learn how much difficulty and pain has been added to his life by their ill-will.
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