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The mind's passion is all for singling out. Obscurity has another tale to tell.
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The moment one accosts a stranger or is accosted by him is above all in this life the moment of drama... Whoever we meet watches us intently at the quick, strange moment of meeting, to see whether we are disposed to be friendly.
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The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.
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The monster of advertisement... is a sort of octopus with innumerable tentacles. It throws out to right and left, in front and behind, its clammy arms, and gathers in, through its thousand little suckers, all the gossip and slander and praise afloat, to spit out again at the public.
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The moon and other celestial bodies should be free for exploration and use by all countries. No country should be permitted to advance a claim of sovereignty.
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The moon belongs to everyone;
The best things in life are free.
The stars belong to everyone;
They gleam there for you and me.Song: The Best Things in Life are Free -
The more English is heard in the world, the more gratifying it seems to speak French, and above all to know the culture of our country. They find a kind of French social grace in the language and culture.
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The more one analyses people, the more all reasons for analysis disappear. Sooner or later one comes to that dreadful universal thing called human nature.
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The more one sees of human fate and the more one examines its secret springs of action, the more one is impressed by the strength of unconscious motives and by the limitations of free choice.
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The more people have studied different methods of bringing up children the more they have come to the conclusion that what good mother and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is the best after all.
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The more we learn of science, the more we see that its wonderful mysteries are all explained by a few simple laws so connected together and so dependent upon each other, that we see the same mind animating them all.
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The more we reduce ourselves to machines in the lower things, the more force we shall set free to use in the higher.
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The mortality of all inanimate things is terrible to me, but that of books most of all.
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The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities.
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The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.
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The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shock-proof, shit detector. This is the writer's radar and all great writers have had it.
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The most exquisite paradox… as soon as you give it all up, you can have it all. As long as you want power, you can't have it. The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamed possible.
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The most important American addition to the World Experience was the simple surprising fact of America. We have helped prepare mankind for all its later surprises.
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The most important of all sciences man can and must learn is the science of living so as to do the least evil and the greatest possible good.
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