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The successor to politics will be propaganda. Propaganda, not in the sense of a message or ideology, but as the impact of the whole technology of the times.
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The suit-and-tie job is very nice but it's not really who I am in my heart.
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The sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider marriage as the sole object in life, and to pretend that they do not think so.
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The sun shineth upon the dunghill, and is not corrupted.
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The superior man is firm in the right way, and not merely firm.
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The supernatural is the natural not yet understood.
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The suppression of uncomfortable ideas may be common in religion and politics, but it is not the path to knowledge; it has no place in the endeavor of science.
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The supreme excellence is not to win a hundred victories in a hundred battles. The supreme excellence is to subdue the armies of your enemies without even having to fight them.
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The surest way to establish your credit is to work yourself into the position of not needing any.
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The surest way to fail is not to determine to succeed.
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The task is to transform society; only the people can do that - not heroes, not celebrities, not stars.
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The task of an American writer is not to describe the misgivings of a woman taken in adultery as she looks out of a window at the rain but to describe four hundred people under the lights reaching for a foul ball. This is ceremony.
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The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.
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The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.
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The task we must set for ourselves is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity.
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The teacher gives not of his wisdom, but rather of his faith and lovingness.
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The teacher pretended that algebra was a perfectly natural affair, to be taken for granted, whereas I didn't even know what numbers were. Mathematics classes became sheer terror and torture to me. I was so intimidated by my incomprehension that I did not dare to ask any questions.
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The television critic, whatever his pretensions, does not labor in the same vineyard as those he criticizes; his grapes are all sour.
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