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Only conservatives believe that subversion is still being carried on in the arts and that society is being shaken by it. Advanced art today is no longer a cause, it contains no moral imperative. There is no virtue in clinging to principles and standards, no vice in selling or in selling out.
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Only the element of chance is needed to make war a gamble, and that element is never absent.
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Only the man who does not need it, is fit to inherit wealth, the man who would make his fortune no matter where he started.
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Opera is when a tenor and soprano want to make love, but are prevented from doing so by a baritone.
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Opinion is that exercise of the human will which helps us to make a decision without information.
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Oral delivery aims at persuasion and making the listener believe they are converted. Few persons are capable of being convinced; the majority allow themselves to be persuaded.
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Organizations can get in the way of innovation, because if people are all bound up, and if they don't know if they get to make the decision or somebody else, and if they do, what happens to them, and so on and so forth.
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Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds.
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Our authors and scholars are generally men of business, and make their literary pursuits subservient to their interests.
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Our best evidence of what people truly feel and believe comes less from their words than from their deeds.
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Our chief want in life is somebody who will make us do what we can.
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Our children need to see and hear about more black role models in many fields so they can make better choices.
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Our credulity is greatest concerning the things we know least about. And since we know least about ourselves, we are ready to believe all that is said about us. Hence the mysterious power of both flattery and calumny.
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Our current obsession with creativity is the result of our continued striving for immortality in an era when most people no longer believe in an after-life.
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Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.
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Our emphasis on political coverage from the day we were born here was well-founded, and we believe there were opportunities there that we could do it in a more interesting, appealing and balanced way.
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Our goal: the Islamization of Muslims. Our methods: to believe and to struggle.
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Our life is what our thoughts make it. A man will find that as he alters his thoughts toward things and other people, things and other people will alter towards him.
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