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Absence does but hold off a friend, to make one see him the truer.
Letter to Jonathan Swift (14 december 1725) -
Absence is one of the most useful ingredients of family life, and to dose it rightly is an art like any other.
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Accomplishment is socially judged by ill defined criteria so that one has to rely on others to find out how one is doing.
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According to its doctors, my one intransigent desire is to have been a Confederate general, and because I could not or would not become anything else, I set up for poet and beg an to invent fictions about the personal ambitions that my society has no use for.
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Accuracy of language is one of the bulwarks of truth.
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Accuracy of statement is one of the first elements of truth; inaccuracy is a near kin to falsehood.
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Acquire the courage to believe in yourself. Many of the things that you have been taught were at one time the radical ideas of individuals who had the courage to believe what their own hearts and minds told them was true, rather than accept the common beliefs of their day.
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Acting is merely the art of keeping a large number of people from coughing.
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Acting is my number one, but dancing will always be a part of who I am and in my heart. I love doing stunts when they are a part of my acting.
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Action is at bottom a swinging and flailing of the arms to regain one's balance and keep afloat.
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Actors are always nervous about not only hurting each other, but maybe perhaps hitting each other's face and ending one's career.
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Actually shooting a 3-D movie is not different at all than making a 2-D one. You never really notice that you're making a 3-D movie. The terminology used around the set is a little bit different, but other than that, you'd never know.
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Actually, I loved Chucky. It's one of the strangest movies I've ever seen.
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Actually, there is only one ''first question'' of government, and it is ''How should we live?'' or ''What kind of people do we want our citizens to be?''
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Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one.
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Adventure upon all the tickets in the lottery, and you lose for certain; and the greater the number of your tickets the nearer your approach to this certainty.
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Advertising seemed almost natural to me because it was a business where you had to inform, persuade and educate. And so from being a junior copywriter to being the creative director of one of the largest advertising agencies in the country took me 4.5 years, which is, well, a fairly spectacular rise.
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Advertising signs that con you into thinking you are the one
That can do what's never been done,
That can win what's never been won
Meanwhile, life outside goes on all around youBringing It All Back Home (1965) -
Advice is one of those things it is far more blessed to give than to receive.
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After a certain number of years our faces become our biographies. We get to be responsible for our faces.
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