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A few weeks ago, I was at the gym, talking to a friend about politics. Overhearing the conversation, a young man - maybe 25 years old - interrupted to say, 'Obama? He hasn't done a single thing!'
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A film is just like a muffin. You make it. You put it on the table. One person might say, ''Oh, I don't like it.'' One might say it's the best muffin ever made. One might say it's an awful muffin. It's hard for me to say. It's for me to make the muffin.
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A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand of a fool.
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A fool and his words are soon parted; a man of genius and his money.
Essay on man, manners and things (1769) -
A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.
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A fool... is a man who never tried an experiment in his life.
Letter (1792) -
A funeral is not death, any more than baptism is birth or marriage union. All three are the clumsy devices, coming now too late, now too early, by which Society would register the quick motions of man.
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A game of great charm in the adoption of mathematical measurements to the timing of human movements, the exactitudes and adjustments of physical ability to hazardous chance. The speed of the legs, the dexterity of the body, the grace of the swing, the elusiveness of the slide - these are the features that make Americans everywhere forget the last syllable of a man's last name or the pigmentation of his skin.
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A general presumption that Icings will govern well, is not a sufficient security to the People... those who subjected themselves to the will of a man were governed by a beast.
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A generous man places the benefits he confers beneath his feet; those he receives, nearest his heart.
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A gentleman is a man whose principal ideas are not connected with his personal needs and his personal succes.
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A gentleman reading a poem that began with Where is that man that never yet did hear
Of fair Penelope, Ulysses' queen? calling his cook, asked if he had ever heard of her, who answering No, demonstrate to him Lo, there the man that never yet did hear
Of fair Penelope, Ulysses' queen.Conversations with William Drummond of Hawthornden -
A good cigar is as great a comfort to a man as a good cry is to a woman.
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A good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense of humus.
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A good man, is a good man, whether in this church, or out of it.
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A good painter is to paint two main things, men and the working of man's mind.
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A great architect is not made by way of a brain nearly so much as he is made by way of a cultivated, enriched heart.
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