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A person with half volition goes backwards and forwards, but makes no progress on even the smoothest of roads.
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A playwright lives in an occupied country. And if you can't live that way you don't stay.
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A political organization is a transferable commodity. You could not find a better way of killing virtue than by packing it into one of these contraptions which some gang of thieves is sure to find useful.
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A problem clearly stated is a problem half solved.
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A roast is like a get-together where people come down and talk about you and dog you out, the way you came up, the knucklehead things that you did, stuff like that.
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A safe but sometimes chilly way of recalling the past is to force open a crammed drawer. If you are searching for anything in particular you don't find it, but something falls out at the back that is often more interesting.
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A set definite objective must be established if we are to accomplish anything in a big way.
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A set of rules laid out by professionals to show the way they would like to act if it was profitable.
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A single man has not nearly the value he would have in a state of union. He is an incomplete animal. He resembles the odd half of a pair of scissors.
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A skilful leech is better far, than half a hundred men of war.
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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 society that has made ''nostalgia'' a marketable commodity on the cultural exchange quickly repudiates the suggestion that life in the past was in any important way better than life today.
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A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows.
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A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.
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A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.
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About 100 firefighters a year die in the line of duty in the U.S. Heart attacks on the job and vehicle accidents on the way to the fires account for about half. The other half are traumatic deaths while fighting fires.
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According to this conception, the sole function of education was to open the way to thinking and knowing, and the school, as the outstanding organ for the people's education, must serve that end exclusively.
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Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you act.
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