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Our friends are chosen for us by some hidden law of sympathy, and not by our conscious wills.
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Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify, simplify! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb-nail.
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Outside the walls, among others, is the Soviet Empire. It is malevolent, destructive and expanding. It has swallowed up over half a dozen countries since World War II.
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Parents: persons who spend half their time worrying how a child will turn out, and the rest of the time wondering when a child will turn in.
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Poetry operates by hints and dark suggestions. It is full of secrets and hidden formulae, like a witch's brew.
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Practically everybody in New York has half a mind to write a book, and does.
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Racism is a much more clandestine, much more hidden kind of phenomenon, but at the same time it's perhaps far more terrible than it's ever been.
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Rage cannot be hidden, it can only be dissembled. This dissembling deludes the thoughtless, and strengthens rage and adds, to rage, contempt.
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Ray had so much love of life and the music. He had so much integrity. He treated the music with so much dignity and respect. I spent four and a half years as a sideman with Ray Brown's trio. Music was his life, more so than anyone I could mention.
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Remember that what pulls the strings is the force hidden within; there lies the power to persuade, there the life - there, if one must speak out, the real man.
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Remember, half the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their class.
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Rich people never go to war. You ask a college kid to go to war, and he's like, 'Umm, I'm taking this sociology class, and I think war is, like, really stupid, and my roommate's, like, half Afghani, so it's going to cause some static.'
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Rosa Parks' courage, determination, and tenacity continue to be an inspiration to all those committed to non-violent protest and change nearly half a century later.
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Science is always simple and always profound. It is only the half-truths that are dangerous.
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Sex is a conversation carried out by other means. If you get on well out of bed, half the problems of bed are solved.
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Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose.
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Sin has always been an ugly word, but it has been made so in a new sense over the last half-century. It has been made not only ugly but passé. People are no longer sinful, they are only immature or underprivileged or frightened or, more particularly, sick.
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So far is it from being true that men are naturally equal, that no two people can be half an hour together, but one shall acquire an evident superiority over the other.
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So I'm half deaf - and dyslexic. How about that? Nobody's perfect, and I'm proud of my defects.
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So many paintings have hidden meanings or need wall texts, but my work is not in that category.
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