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'Vogue' is a very specific world. You are 'Vogue,' or not 'Vogue.'
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... ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.
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... the best way to win was to not need to win. The best performances are accomplished when you are relaxed and free of doubt.
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...a state is not the same thing as a society, although the Greeks and Romans thought it was. A state is an organization of power on a territorial basis.
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...empires and civilizations do not collapse because of deficiencies on the military or the political levels.
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...human beings have religious needs. They have a need for a feeling of certitude in their minds about things they cannot control and they do not fully understand, and with humility, they admit they do not understand...
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...they give us vicarious satisfactions for many of our frustrations....People need exercise; they do not need to watch other people exercise... Another vicarious satisfaction is sexy magazines; this is vicarious sex. To anyone rushing to buy one, I'd like to say, The real thing is better.
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...we no longer have intellectually satisfying arrangements in our educational system, in our arts, humanities or anything else; instead we have slogans and ideologies. An ideology is a religious or emotional expression; it is not an intellectual expression.
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A ''sin'' is something which is not necessary.
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A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.
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A bargain is in its very essence a hostile transaction do not all men try to abate the price of all they buy? I contend that a bargain even between brethren is a declaration of war.
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A battle won is a battle which we will not acknowledge to be lost.
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A better ending could not have been scripted. Of course, if we had won, that would have been better.
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A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.
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A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.
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A book is like a man: clever and dull, brave and cowardly, beautiful and ugly. For every flowering thought there will be a page like a wet and mangy mongrel, and for every looping flight a tap on the wing and a reminder that wax cannot hold the feathers firm too near the sun.
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A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called "leaves") imprinted with dark pigmented squiggles. One glance at it and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, the author is speaking, clearly and silently, inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another. Books break th
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A book may be compared to your neighbor: if it be good, it cannot last too long; if bad, you cannot get rid of it too early.
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