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The American lives even more for his goals, for the future, than the European. Life for him is always becoming, never being.
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The anger in the Brigade against those who fought the Republic in the rear was sharpened by reports of weapons, even tanks, being kept from the front and hidden for treacherous purposes.
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The anger that appears to be building up between the sexes becomes more virulent with every day that passes. And far from women taking the blame... the fact is that men are invariably portrayed as the bad guys. Being a good man is like being a good Nazi.
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The animals that depend on instinct have an inherent knowledge of the laws of economics and of how to apply them; Man, with his powers of reason, has reduced economics to the level of a farce which is at once funnier and more tragic than Tobacco Road.
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The aphorism as a man thinketh in his heart so is he contains the secret of life.
Source: Striking Thoughts (2000) p. 4; Lee here quotes Proverbs 23:7 As he thinketh -
The applause of a single human being is of great consequence.
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The approach of liberty makes even an old man brave.
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The armoury of having any academic education does not necessarily set you up for being a good or better actor.
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The art from the East is influenced by nature and touch. That comes from being more attuned to the environment.
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The art of being a slave is to rule one's master.
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The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness. but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow Up.
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The Artist is he who detects and applies the law from observation of the works of Genius, whether of man or Nature. The Artisan is he who merely applies the rules which others have detected.
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The assumption must be that those who can see value only in tradition, or versions of it, deny man's ability to adapt to changing circumstances.
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The atom, being for all practical purposes the stable unit of the physical plane, is a constantly changing vortex of reactions.
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The attainments of the parent do not descend in the blood of his children, nor is the progress of man to be considered as a physical mutation of the species.
Source: An Essay on the History of Civil Society I,I -
The average GOP presidential vote in these last five elections was 44.5 percent. In the last three, it was 48.1 percent. Give Romney an extra point for voter disillusionment with Obama, and a half-point for being better financed than his predecessors. It still strikes me as a path to narrow defeat.
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The average man does not get pleasure out of an idea because he thinks it is true; he thinks it is true because he gets pleasure out of it.
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