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There is something mighty suspicious about declaring an emergency for something that has yet to show itself to be a grand pandemic.
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There's a point of poverty at which the spirit isn't with the body all the time. It finds the body really too unbearable. So it's almost as if you were talking to the soul itself. And a soul's not properly responsible.
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There's something exciting about weekly strips in that you're following the way the story reveals itself to the writer week by week. All the possible directions it could have taken are there; it's a kind of participatory reading that I think books discourage.
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Things have different qualities, and the soul different inclinations; for nothing is simple which is presented to the soul, and the soul never presents itself simply to any object. Hence it comes that we weep and laugh at the same thing.
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This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read.
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Those thinkers who cannot believe in any gods often assert that the love of humanity would be in itself sufficient for them; and so, perhaps, it would, if they had it.
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Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue.
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Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.
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Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.
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Thought once awakened does not again slumber; unfolds itself into a System of Thought; grows, in man after man, generation after generation, till its full stature is reached, and such System of Thought can grow no farther, but must give place to another.
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Thus fear of danger is ten thousand times more terrifying than danger itself.
Source: Robinson Crusoe (1719) -
Time has no meaning in itself unless we choose to give it significance.
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To a child, often the box a toy came in is more appealing than the toy itself.
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To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough to make me ambitious.
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To emphasize only the beautiful seems to me to be like a mathematical system that only concerns itself with positive numbers.
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To every people the land is given on condition. Perceived or not, there is a Covenant, beyond the constitution, beyond sovereign guarantee, beyond the nation's sweetest dreams of itself.
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To introduce into the philosophy of War itself a principle of moderation would be an absurdity.
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To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself.
― Henry Ward Beecher
American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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