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A mistake made by many people with great convictions is that they will let nothing stand in the way of their views, not even kindness.
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A molcajete is a stone mortar and pestle from Mexico. They're great for grinding spices and making salsa and guacamole because they give everything a nice coarse and rustic feel. I've never collected anything, but I think I might start collecting these because each one is decorated differently.
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A mother should give her children a superabundance of enthusiasm; that after they have lost all they are sure to lose on mixing with the world, enough may still remain to prompt fated support them through great actions.
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A people's literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of them. The writings of the day show the quality of the people as no historical reconstruction can.
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A playwright is the litmus paper of the arts. He's got to be, because if he isn't working on the same wave length as the audience, no one would know what in hell he was talking about. He is a kind of psychic journalist, even when he's great.
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A position of eminence makes a great person greater and a small person less.
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A strong memory, concentration, imagination, and a strong will is required to become a great Chess player.
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A system in which the two great commandments are to hate your neighbor and to love your neighbor's wife.
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A tomb now suffices him for whom the whole world was not sufficient.
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A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.
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A war for a great principle ennobles a nation.
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A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things, but cannot receive great ones.
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A whopping 89 percent of buyers start their home search online. How your house looks online is the modern equivalent of 'curb appeal.' Rent a wide-angle lens and good lighting, get rid of your clutter and post at least eight great photos to win the beauty contest.
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Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire.
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Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.
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Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read; and the
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Actors, lots of times, are great when they have great parts. For me, a lot of times, it's been the part.
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Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction; and often the profit we derive, is not worth the price we paid.
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Advertising ministers to the spiritual side of trade. It is great power that has been entrusted to your keeping which charges you with the high responsibility of inspiring and ennobling the commercial world. It is all part of the greater work of the regeneration and redemption of mankind.
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