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The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.
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The passion of self-aggrandizement is persistent but plastic; it will never disappear from a vigorous mind, but may become morally higher by attaching itself to a larger conception of what constitutes the self.
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'Gorilla Man' is a composite of a few individuals, but the song itself was actually inspired by James Taylor. I spied his 'Gorilla' album laying on my floor and in some altered state, instantly started singing the chorus. It was fun to write. There's an old notebook with at least three more verses in it somewhere.
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'J'eet jet?' is still the standard way for a Pittsburgher to ask if you're ready for a meal, but the meal itself is no longer limited to chipped ham and an Iron City beer.
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A buyback is itself a special kind of acquisition, made at prices that are typically a bargain compared with those a company must pay for an outside purchase.
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A candle burned on the table, a candle burned... he whispered to himself — the beginning of something confused, formless; he hoped that it would take shape of itself. But nothing more came to him.
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A child's spirit is like a child, you can never catch it by running after it; you must stand still, and, for love, it will soon itself come back.
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A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values.
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A clever child brought up with a foolish one can itself become foolish. Man is so perfectible and corruptible he can become a fool through good sense.
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A doctrine serves no purpose in itself, but it is indispensable to have one if only to avoid being deceived by false doctrines.
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A faith that sets bounds to itself, that will believe so much and no more, that will trust thus far and no further, is none.
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A fondness for reading, properly directed, must be an education in itself.
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A foolishness is inflicted with a hatred of itself.
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A free spirit takes liberties even with liberty itself.
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A gold standard doesn't imply stability in the prices of the goods and services that people buy every day, it implies a stability in the price of gold itself.
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A good martial artist does not become tense, but ready. Not thinking, yet not dreaming. Ready for whatever may come. When the opponent expands, I contract; and when he contracts, I expand. And when there is an opportunity, I do not hit, it hits all by itself.
Bruce Lee: Enter the Dragon (1973) -
A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.
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A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within.
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A house divided against itself cannot stand - I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free.
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