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That moderation which nature prescribes, which limits our desires by resources restricted to our needs, has abandoned the field; it has now come to this - that to want only what is enough is a sign both of boorishness and of utter destitution.
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That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.
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That virtue we appreciate is as much ours as another s. We see so much only as we possess.
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That was the appealing thing about comics: There literally is no budget in comics. You're only limited by your imagination.
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That we must love one God only is a thing so evident that it does not require miracles to prove it.
Pensees -
That which you create in beauty and goodness and truth lives on for all time to come. Don't spend your life accumulating material objects that will only turn to dust and ashes.
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That's the funny thing about arriving somewhere, Vin. Once you're there, the only thing you can really do is leave again
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That's the way I try to live. I think it's the only way for human beings at this point in our evolution as souls, where everyone in their lifetime is going through stuff.
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The ''Communism'' of the English intellectual is something explicable enough. It is the patriotism of the deracinated.
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The abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today. Only facing up to this situation in all its desperation can help us get out of it.
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The act of divine worship is the inestimable privilege of man, the only created being who bows in humility and adoration.
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The acts of the human race on the world's stage have doubtless a coherent unity, but the meaning of the vast tragedy enacted will be visible only to the eye of God, until the end, which will reveal it perhaps to the last man.
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The age in which we live can only be characterized as one of barbarism. Our civilization is in the process not only of being militarized, but also being brutalized.
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The agent never receipts his bill, puts his hat on and bows himself out. He stays around forever, not only for as long as you can write anything that anyone will buy, but as long as anyone will buy any portion of any right to anything that you ever did write. He just takes ten per cent of your life.
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The Anarchists believe in civil society; only they insist that the freedom of civil society shall be complete instead of partial.
Individual Liberty -
The Anarchists most certainly believe in the Church; only they insist that all its work shall be purely voluntary, and that its discoveries and achievements, however beneficial, shall not be imposed upon the individual by authority.
Individual Liberty -
The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies, one, perhaps, of the Right and the other of the Left, is a foolish idea acceptable only to doctrinaire and academic thinkers.
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The artist is of no importance. Only what he creates is important, since there is nothing new to be said. Shakespeare, Balzac, Homer have all written about the same things, and if they had lived one thousand or two thousand years longer, the publishers wouldn't have needed anyone since.
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The arts and inventions of each period are only its costume, and do not invigorate men.
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The assumption must be that those who can see value only in tradition, or versions of it, deny man's ability to adapt to changing circumstances.
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