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A person with belief never grovels before anyone, whining and whimpering that it's all too much, that he lacks support, that he is being treated unfairly. Instead, such a person tackes problems head on and then affirms, 'As a child of God, I am greater than anything that can happen to me.
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A person with half volition goes backwards and forwards, but makes no progress on even the smoothest of roads.
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A person without a shadow should keep out of the sun, that is the only safe and rational plan.
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A person's genetic endowment, a product of the evolution of the species, is said to explain part of the workings of his mind and his personal history the rest.
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A pessimist and an optimist, so much the worse; so much the better.
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A petty reason perhaps why novelists more and more try to keep a distance from journalists is that novelists are trying to write the truth and journalists are trying to write fiction.
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A photographer must be prepared to catch and hold on to those elements which give distinction to the subject or lend it atmosphere.
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A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can't be much good.
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A playwright lives in an occupied country. And if you can't live that way you don't stay.
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A poem generated by its own laws may be unrealized and bad in terms of so-called objective principles of taste, judgement, deduction.
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A poem might be defined as thinking about feelings - about human feelings and frailties.
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A poem records emotions and moods that lie beyond normal language, that can only be patched together and hinted at metaphorically.
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A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and understanding.
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A politician is an animal which can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground.
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A pool is, for many of us in the West, a symbol not of affluence but of order, of control over the uncontrollable. A pool is water, made available and useful, and is, as such, infinitely soothing to the western eye.
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A position of eminence makes a great person greater and a small person less.
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A powerful agent is the right word. Whenever we come upon one of those intensely right words... the resulting effect is physical as well as spiritual, and electrically prompt.
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A practical botanist will distinguish at the first glance the plant of the different quarters of the globe and yet will be at a loss to tell by what marks he detects them.
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A president and a party that can provide insurance for 31 million more Americans is far preferable to most voters than a party that only says, 'No.'
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