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Not often in the story of mankind does a man arrive on earth who is both steel and velvet, who is as hard as rock and soft as drifting fog, who holds in his heart and mind the paradox of terrible storm and peace unspeakable and perfect.
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Not that it entirely matters: There is a perception that all actors make their movies. A lot of people assume you're responsible. George Clooney told me actors get all of the blame and all the credit.
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Nothing dies so hard, or rallies so often as intolerance.
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Nothing does reason more right, than the coolness of those that offer it: For Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders, than from the arguments of its opposers.
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Nothing makes one so vain as being told that one is a sinner.
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Nothing makes people so worthy of compliments as receiving them. One is more delightful for being told one is delightful - just as one is more angry for being told one is angry.
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Novels so often provide an anodyne and not an antidote, glide one into torpid slumbers instead of rousing one with a burning brand.
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Nowadays the dynamic element is more important in chess - players more often sacrifice material to obtain dynamic compensation.
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Observe it, the vulgar often laugh, but never smile, whereas well-bred people often smile, and seldom or never laugh. A witty thing never excited laughter, it pleases only the mind and never distorts the countenance.
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Often a certain abdication of prudence and foresight is an element of success.
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Often I look back and see that I had been many kinds of a fool-and that I had been happy in being this or that kind of fool.
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Often it is just lack of imagination that keeps a man from suffering very much.
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Often it seems a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
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Often it takes some calamity to make us live in the present. Then suddenly we wake up and see all the mistakes we have made.
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Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier.
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Often people, when they're confronted with a poem, it's like someone who keep saying 'what is the meaning of this? What is the meaning of this?' And that dulls us to the other pleasures poetry offers.
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Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid.
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Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act.
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