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Anger, and the self-righteousness that is both the cause and consequence of anger, tends to be easier on the psyche than personal responsibility.
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Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.
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Anger: an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.
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Any committee that is the slightest use is composed of people who are too busy to want to sit on it for a second longer than they have to.
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Any composer who is gloriously conscious that he is a composer must believe that he receives his inspiration from a source higher than himself.
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Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning, but give me the man who has pluck to fight when he's sure of losing. That's my way, sir; and there are many victories worse than a defeat.
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Any fact is better established by two or three good testimonies than by a thousand arguments.
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Any group or “collective,” large or small, is only a number of individuals. A group can have no rights other than the rights of its individual members.
The Virtue of Selfishness (1964) -
Any move made in a state of tension will be of more important, and will have more results, than it would have made in a state of eqilibrium. In times of maximum tension this importance will rise to an infinite degree.
On War (1832) -
Any nation that thinks more of its ease and comfort than its freedom will soon lose its freedom; and the ironical thing about it is that it will lose its ease and comfort too.
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Any truth is better than indefinite doubt.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (1893) -
Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against the cultivation of his talent.
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Anything that is given can be at once taken away. We have to learn never to expect anything, and when it comes it's no more than a gift on loan.
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Apparently God takes reception of Holy Communion seriously. Apparently some things are more sacred than politics. Apparently it's all or nothing when it comes to being Catholic.
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Approaches to determining stock values vary, but fundamentally, each company judging itself undervalued is saying that its future stream of earnings justifies a higher price than the stock market is willing to accord it.
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Are you as much of a criminal if you don't act when there's a crime taking place in front of you as you are one of the participants? That was something that I was thinking about a lot because there are many moments in 'Less Than Zero' where horrific things happen and Clay could do something about them, but his passivity stops him.
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Aristotle could have avoided the mistake of thinking that women have fewer teeth than men, by the simple device of asking Mrs. Aristotle to keep her mouth open while he counted.
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Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives' mouths.
Bertrand Russells best: silhouettes in satire -
Around the time I began starving, in the early eighties, the visual image had begun to supplant text as culture's primary mode of communication, a radical change because images work so differently than words: They're immediate, they hit you at levels way beneath intellect, they come fast and furious.
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Art is mind and heart and touch as much and more than it is mere instrument, technique - without which however it cannot exist at all.
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