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To make someone an icon is to make him an abstraction, and abstractions are incapable of vital communication with living people.
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To make the argument that the media has a left- or right-wing, or a liberal or a conservative bias, is like asking if the problem with Al-Qaeda is do they use too much oil in their hummus.
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To make the moral achievement implicit in science a source of strength to civilization, the scientist will have to have the cooperation also of the philosopher and the religious teacher.
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To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
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To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.
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To me the supreme aim is an act of faith and reason to make one rejoice in the midst of tragedy.
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To me, the black black woman is our essential mother, the blacker she is the more us she is and to see the hatred that is turned on her is enough to make me despair, almost entirely, of our future as a people.
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To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the music the words make.
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To me, you go through things like that and you learn from it. You add it on to your life, to try to make your life better. Instead of dogging people, learn something from it. And keep stepping.
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To observations which ourselves we make, we grow more partial for th' observer's sake.
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To philosophize is only another way of being afraid and leads hardly anywhere but to cowardly make-believe.
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To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace.
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To put away aimlessness and weakness, and to begin to think with purpose, is to enter the ranks of those strong ones who only recognize failure as one of the pathways to attainment; who make all conditions serve them, and who think strongly, attempt fearlessly, and accomplish masterfully.
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To say that war is madness is like saying that sex is madness: true enough, from the standpoint of a stateless eunuch, but merely a provocative epigram for those who must make their arrangements in the world as given.
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To shun one's cross is to make it heavier.
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To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last - but eat you he will.
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To succeed in business it is necessary to make others see things as you see them.
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To watch the corn grow, or the blossoms set; to draw hard breath over the plough or spade; to read, to think, to love, to pray, are the things that make men happy.
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To write is to make oneself the echo of what cannot cease speaking - and since it cannot, in order to become its echo I have, in a way, to silence it. I bring to this incessant speech the decisiveness, the authority of my own silence.
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