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A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.
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A thing that has not been begun cannot be finished.
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A thing that you see in my pictures is that I was not afraid to fall in love with these people.
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A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and an action which does not proceed from a thought is nothing at all.
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A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
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A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm.
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A tomb now suffices him for whom the whole world was not sufficient.
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A tradition without intelligence is not worth having.
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A tradition without intelligence is not worth having. T. S. Eliot, After Strange Gods (1934) There is no creation without tradition. No one creates from nothing.
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A tree growing out of the ground is as wonderful today as it ever was. It does not need to adopt new and startling methods.
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A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.
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A trial without witnesses, when it involves a criminal accusation, a criminal matter, is not a true trial.
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A true architect is not an artist but an optimistic realist. They take a diverse number of stakeholders, extract needs, concerns, and dreams, then create a beautiful yet tangible solution that is loved by the users and the community at large. We create vessels in which life happens.
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A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words.
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A vain man finds it wise to speak good or ill of himself; a modest man does not talk of himself.
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A very subtle difference can make the picture or not.
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A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth.
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A voyage to Europe in the summer of 1921 gave me the first opportunity of observing the wonderful blue opalescence of the Mediterranean Sea. It seemed not unlikely that the phenomenon owed its origin to the scattering of sunlight by the molecules of the water.
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A wartime C.E.O. may not delegate. They make every decision based on the next product release. They may use a lot of profanity.
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A Whig is properly what is called a Trimmer - that is, a coward to both sides of the question, who dare not be a knave nor an honest man, but is a sort of whiffing, shuffling, cunning, silly, contemptible, unmeaning negation of the two.
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