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The English public, as a mass, takes no interest in a work of art until it is told that the work in question is immoral.
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The English seem to think drinking wine is like committing adultery, something you do rarely and abroad.
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The English think they are free. They are free only during the election of members of parliament.
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The environmental crisis is a global problem, and only global action will resolve it.
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The epic implications of being human end in more than this: We start our lives as if they were momentous stories, with a beginning, a middle and an appropriate end, only to find that they are mostly middles.
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The essential part of our being can only survive if the transient part dissolves. Death is a condition of survival. That which has been gained must be eternalized, and can only be eternalized by being transmuted, by passing through death they must return
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The explanation of the propensity of the English people to portrait painting is to be found in their relish for a Fact. Let a man do the grandest things, fight the greatest battles, or be distinguished by the most brilliant personal heroism, yet the English people would prefer his portrait to a painting of the great deed. The likeness they can judge of; his existence is a Fact. But the truth of the picture of his deeds they cannot judge of, for they have no imagination.
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The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.
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The eyes see only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.
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The face of nature and civilization in this our country is to a certain point a very sufficient literary field. But it will yield its secrets only to a really grasping imagination. To write well and worthily of American things one need even more than elsewhere to be a master.
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The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live - moreover, the only one.
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The fact that you had disruptions in the peace process was not only in Rwanda. We had the same problem in Cambodia, we had the same problem in Mozambique, we had the same problem in Salvador.
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The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.
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The farmer is the only man in our economy who buys everything at retail, sells everything at wholesale, and pays the freight both ways.
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The Federal Reserve can only buy Treasuries and agencies, and moreover quantitative easing typically involves buying longer-term Treasuries and agencies in terms of bills, for example.
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The Few assume to be the deputies, but they are often only the despoilers of the Many.
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The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.
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The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.
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The fight against bad English is not frivolous.
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The fight for reform comes down to a simple goal: giving our citizens the confidence that government serves the people first and the people only.
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