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A radical is one of whom people say ''He goes too far.'' A conservative, on the other hand, is one who ''doesn't go far enough.'' Then there is the reactionary, ''one who doesn't go at all.'' All these terms are more or less objectionable, wherefore we have
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A rejection is nothing more than a necessary step in the pursuit of success.
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A revolution does not last more than fifteen years, the period which coincides with the flourishing of a generation.
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A rioter with a Molotov cocktail in his hands is not fighting for civil rights any more than a Klansman with a sheet on his back and a mask on his face.
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A Shakespearean tragedy as so far considered may be called a story of exceptional calamity leading to the death of a man in high estate. But it is clearly much more than this, and we have now to regard it from another side.
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A sign of celebrity is often that their name is worth more than their services.
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A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.
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A single tree in the tropical forest in the south of Mexico has more different species than some European countries.
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A skilful leech is better far, than half a hundred men of war.
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A society that has made ''nostalgia'' a marketable commodity on the cultural exchange quickly repudiates the suggestion that life in the past was in any important way better than life today.
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A strong foe is better than a weak friend.
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A successful book cannot afford to be more than ten percent new.
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A talent somewhat above mediocrity, shrewd and not too sensitive, is more likely to rise in the world than genius.
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A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself.
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A theory is no more like a fact than a photograph is like a person.
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A thing may happen and be a total lie; another thing may not happen and be truer than the truth.
De last die ze droegen (1990) 80 -
A tiny remnant of a big thing is better than a whole little thing.
Orot Orot Hatchiah 14 -
A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger.
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A vacuum of ideas affects people differently than a vacuum of air, otherwise readers of books would be constantly collapsing.
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