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What is more important in a library than anything else - than everything else - is the fact that it exists.
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What is needed is an all-out science project to get vehicles off of gasoline, rather than off of the earth.
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What is needed now is a transformation of the major systems of production more profound than even the sweeping post-World War II changes in production technology.
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What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it.
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What is New York? A straightforward answer: seven million people crushed onto an island originally settled by the Dutch. But it's more than that. These are seven million who were, mainly, not even born here.
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What is perhaps more worthy of note than how many tsunami dead we've seen, however, is how many other recent dead we have not seen.
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What is read twice is usually remembered more than what is once written.
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What it means is that some of Charles' press secretaries have been better than others as some of the Queen's press secretaries have been better than others.
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What it values most of all is the sum total of events and the advance of civilization, which carries individuals along with it; but, indifferent to details, it cares less to have them real than noble or, rather, grand and complete.
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What makes a regiment of soldiers a more noble object of view than the same mass of mob? Their arms, their dresses, their banners, and the art and artificial symmetry of their position and movements.
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What makes us so bitter against people who outwit us is that they think themselves cleverer than we are.
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What money is better bestowed than that of a schoolboy's tip? How the kindness is recalled by the recipient in after days! It blesses him that gives and him that takes.
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What more fiendish proof of cosmic irresponsibility than a Nature which, having invented sex as a way to mix genes, then permits to arise, amid all its perfumed and hypnotic inducements to mate, a tireless tribe of spirochetes and viruses that torture and kill us for following orders?
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What office is there which involves more responsibility, which requires more qualifications, and which ought, therefore, to be more honorable, than that of teaching?
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What opera isn't violent? Two things happen, violence and love. And other than that, name something else. You can't.
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What pursuit is more elegant than that of collecting the ignominies of our nature and transfixing them for show, each on the bright pin of a polished phrase?
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What Romantic terminology called genius or talent or inspiration is nothing other than finding the right road empirically, following one's nose, taking shortcuts.
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What seem our worst prayers may really be, in God's eyes, our best. Those, I mean, which are least supported by devotional feeling. For these may come from a deeper level than feeling. God sometimes seems to speak to us most intimately when he catches us, as it were, off our guard.
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What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one.
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What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease.
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