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A single person is missing for you, and the whole world is empty.
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A society person who is enthusiastic about modern painting or Truman Capote is already half a traitor to his class. It is middle-class people who, quite mistakenly, imagine that a lively pursuit of the latest in reading and painting will advance their status in the world.
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A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him or her.
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A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him.
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A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of.
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A technical objection is the first refuge of a scoundrel.
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A theory is no more like a fact than a photograph is like a person.
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A truly creative person rids him or herself of all self-imposed limitations.
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A typical leader has - a natural tendency is to be defensive in the face of a crisis. The first reaction is to blame someone - or something - else. Often, the blame is aimed at something abstract or non-controllable, which often has nothing to do with the crisis but is adjacent to whatever is going on, so it's an easy target.
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A very sensitive person in this stupid world is bound to become mad.... Only meditation can save him from becoming mad.
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A virtuous and well-disposed person, like a good metal, the more he is fired, the more he is fined; the more he is opposed, the more he is approved: wrongs may well try him, and touch him, but cannot imprint in him any false stamp.
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A voyage to Europe in the summer of 1921 gave me the first opportunity of observing the wonderful blue opalescence of the Mediterranean Sea. It seemed not unlikely that the phenomenon owed its origin to the scattering of sunlight by the molecules of the water.
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A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous.
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A wise architect observed that you could break the laws of architectural art provided you had mastered them first. That would apply to religion as well as to art. Ignorance of the past does not guarantee freedom from its imperfections.
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A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times.
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A wise scepticism is the first attribute of a good critic.
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A wise skepticism is the first attribute of a good critic.
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A woman's asking for equality in the church would be comparable to a black person's demanding equality in the Ku Klux Klan.
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A work can become modern only if it is first postmodern. Postmodernism thus understood is not modernism at its end but in the nascent state, and this state is constant.
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