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A great thing can only be done by a great person; and they do it without effort.
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A great wind swept over the ghetto, carrying away shame, invisibility and four centuries of humiliation. But when the wind dropped people saw it had been only a little breeze, friendly, almost gentle.
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A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live.
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A heresy can spring only from a system that is in full vigor.
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A historical romance is the only kind of book where chastity really counts.
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A human being is only interesting if he's in contact with himself. I learned you have to trust yourself, be what you are, and do what you ought to do the way you should do it. You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it.
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A hundredth of a second here, a hundredth of a second there - even if you put them end to end, they still only add up to one, two, perhaps three seconds, snatched from eternity.
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A living cell requires energy not only for all its functions, but also for the maintenance of its structure.
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A lot of people have no access to beauty. When I was growing up, my mother had only a few pretty things to look at.
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A lot of small towns in Texas have only volunteer fire departments. And even though they're called volunteer fire departments, they are usually very professional and have great training and usually have good equipment.
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A majority of women seem to consider themselves sent into the world for the sole purpose of displaying dry goods, and it is only when acting the part of an animated milliner's block that they feel they are performing their appropriate mission.
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A man can be himself only so long as he is alone.
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A man can learn only two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.
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A man can only attain knowledge with the help of those who possess it. This must be understood from the very beginning. One must learn from him who knows.
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A man does not sin by commission only, but often by ommission.
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A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.
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A man is an island in the only sense that matters, not an easy way to be. We live in mystery, a cosmos of separate lonely bodies, men, insects, stars. It is all a loneliness and men know it best.
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A man may be a heretic in the truth; and if he believe things only because his pastor says so, or the assembly so determines, without knowing other reason, though his belief be true, yet the very truth he holds becomes his heresy.
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A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding.
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