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To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illuminate only the track it has passed.
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True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher.
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We are becoming like cats, slyly parasitic, enjoying an indifferent domesticity. Nice and snug in the social, our historic passions have withdrawn into the glow of an artificial coziness, and our half-closed eyes now seek little other than the peaceful parade of television pictures.
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We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can - namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.
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We need to have our conservative version of what health care looks like, and that will include a repeal of Obamacare.
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We'd all like a reputation for generosity, and we'd all like to buy it cheap.
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981) -
When a village ceases to be a community, it becomes oppressive in its narrow conformity. So one becomes an individual and migrates to the city. There, finding others like-minded, one re-establishes a village community. Nowadays only New Yorkers are yokels.
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When you do something that you like, and you think you can keep doing it, you don't think about retiring.
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When you're just like everybody else, you've nothing to offer other than your conformity.
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Who then is free? The one who wisely is lord of themselves, who neither poverty, death or captivity terrify, who is strong to resist his appetites and shun honors, and is complete in themselves smooth and round like a globe.
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Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark.
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Words are easy, like the wind; Faithful friends are hard to find.
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Words can have no single fixed meaning. Like wayward electrons, they can spin away from their initial orbit and enter a wider magnetic field. No one owns them or has a proprietary right to dictate how they will be used.
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You still get these waves of doubt that come over you, for example, when you get a bad review or you accept a part and think, 'Oh, God, what have I just accepted? I can't do that.' I don't think that's something that will ever go away in me.
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Your idol is shattered in the dust to prove that God's dust is greater than your idol.
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All the people like us are we, And everyone else is They.
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An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.
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Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost how it feels about dogs.
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"My country, right or wrong," is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying, "My mother, drunk or sober."
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''My country, right or wrong'' is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying ''My mother, drunk or sober.''
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