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A good conversationalist is not one who remembers what was said, but says what someone wants to remember.
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A good drama critic is one who perceives what is happening in the theatre of his time. A great drama critic also perceives what is not happening.
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A good essay must have this permanent quality about it; it must draw its curtain round us, but it must be a curtain that shuts us in not out.
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A good friend can tell you what is the matter with you in a minute. He may not seem such a good friend after telling.
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A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he knows something.
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A good martial artist does not become tense, but ready. Not thinking, yet not dreaming. Ready for whatever may come. When the opponent expands, I contract; and when he contracts, I expand. And when there is an opportunity, I do not hit, it hits all by itself.
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A good part - and definitely the most fun part - of being a feminist is about frightening men.
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A good principle not rightly understood may prove as hurtful as a bad.
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A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent upon arriving. A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever it wants.
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A good upbringing means not that you won't spill sauce on the tablecloth, but that you won't notice it when someone else does.
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A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug.
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A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind.
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A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend.
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A Government of the people, by the people and for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
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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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A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within.
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A great deal of my battle, as an actor, is to whittle away the things that make me self-conscious and try to trick myself into not being self-conscious. So, it's always a challenge, whether I'm lying in a hospital bed or flying around with a rocket pack on my back, or what have you. On the best of days, it's a challenge for me.
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A grindstone that had not grit in it, how long would it take to sharpen an ax? And affairs that had not grit in them, how long would they take to make a man?
― Henry Ward Beecher
American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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