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An aphorism can never be the whole truth; it is either a half-truth or a truth-and-a-half.
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An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and complete in itself like a hedgehog.
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An apology for the actions of some troops who, of course, are not representative of the majority of the armed forces here, I think that would have been useful and it would have helped to some extent.
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An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in the long run.
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An architect should live as little in cities as a painter. Send him to our hills, and let him study there what nature understands by a buttress, and what by a dome.
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An army without culture is a dull-witted army, and a dull-witted army cannot defeat the enemy.
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An arrow may fly through the air and leave no trace; but an ill thought leaves a trail like a serpent.
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An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why.
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An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.
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An artist's early work is inevitably made up of a mixture of tendencies and interests, some of which are compatible and some of which are in conflict.
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An atheist is a man who watches a Notre Dame - Southern Methodist University game and doesn't care who wins.
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An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.
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An athlete and actor are really two different temperaments, night and day. As an athlete you really keep things out and as an actor you really bring things in.
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An athlete who tells you the training is always easy and always fun simply hasn't been there. Goals can be elusive which makes the difficult journey all the more rewarding.
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An attempt at visualizing the Fourth Dimension: Take a point, stretch it into a line, curl it into a circle, twist it into a sphere, and punch through the sphere.
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An author who gives a manager or publisher any rights in his work except those immediately and specifically required for its publication or performance is for business purposes an imbecile.
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An autobiography is not about pictures; it's about the stories; it's about honesty and as much truth as you can tell without coming too close to other people's privacy.
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An awareness of one's mortality can lead you to wake up and live an authentic, meaningful life.
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An awful lot of England is slowly eroding, in ways that I find really distressing, and an awful lot of it is the hedgerows... We're reaching the point where a lot of the English countryside looks just like Iowa - just kind of open space.
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An educated man is thoroughly inoculated against humbug, thinks for himself and tries to give his thoughts, in speech or on paper, some style.
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