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A woman would rather visit her own grave than the place where she has been young and beautiful after she is aged and ugly.
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A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.
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A work will only have deep resonance if the kind of darkness I can generate is something that is resident in me already.
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A worker may be the hammer's master, but the hammer still prevails. A tool knows exactly how it is meant to be handled, while the user of the tool can only have an approximate idea.
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A young man who does not have what it takes to perform military service is not likely to have what it takes to make a living.
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About the only difference between the poor and the rich, is this, the poor suffer misery, while the rich have to enjoy it.
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Above all be of single aim; have a legitimate and useful purpose, and devote yourself unreservedly to it.
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Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today's world do not have.
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Absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends.
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Abuse if you slight it, will gradually die away; but if you show yourself irritated, you will be thought to have deserved it.
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Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.
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Academic questions are interlopers in a world where so few of the real ones have been answered.
Meditations in Wall Street (1940) p. 94 -
According to its doctors, my one intransigent desire is to have been a Confederate general, and because I could not or would not become anything else, I set up for poet and beg an to invent fictions about the personal ambitions that my society has no use for.
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According to the United Nations' latest count, of the approximately 3,000 languages spoken in the world today, only some 78 have a literature. Of those 78, a scant five or six enjoy a truly international audience.
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Acquire the courage to believe in yourself. Many of the things that you have been taught were at one time the radical ideas of individuals who had the courage to believe what their own hearts and minds told them was true, rather than accept the common beliefs of their day.
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Across the continent, political divisions are deepening. For all of these reasons, the specter of a euro zone collapse has not been dispatched.
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Act as if you have already achieved your goal and it is yours.
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Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.
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Act, if you like, but you do it at your peril. Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.
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Activate yourself to duty by remembering your position, who you are, and what you have obliged yourself to be.
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