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O divine art of subtlety and secrecy! Through you we learn to be invisible, through you inaudible and hence we can hold the enemy's fate in our hands.
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Objects close to the eye shut out much larger objects on the horizon; and splendors born only of the earth eclipse the stars. So it is with people who sometimes cover up the entire disc of eternity with a dollar, and so quench transcendent glories with a little shining dust.
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Oddly enough, I have really bad stage fright - getting up in front of people. And I made a living going on live television.
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Of all forms of slavery there is none that is so harmful and degrading as that form of slavery which tempts one human being to hate another by reason of his race or color. One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.
An Address on Abraham Lincoln before the Republican Club of New York City (1909) -
Of course, English is a very powerful language, a colonizer's language and a gift to a writer. English has destroyed and sucked up the languages of other cultures - its cruelty is its vitality.
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Often and often afterwards, the beloved Aunt would ask me why I had never told anyone how I was being treated. Children tell little more than animals, for what comes to them they accept as eternally established.
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One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.
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One can quite understand vegetarianism. One can quite understand meat-eating. But it is difficult to understand why a person who is a flesh-eater should object to one kind of flesh, namely cow's flesh. This is an anomaly which call for explanation.
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One can win a war with either atomic weapons or by simply placing a 9mm pistol in the right room.
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One doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's too late.
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One man is equivalent to all Creation. One man is a World in miniature.
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One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than fifty preaching it.
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One minute we can be in a small club, the next minute we can be in a coliseum, and the next minute we can be in a small auditorium. It varies, depending on the promoter, the budget, and the travelling distance.
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One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well.
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One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
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One of the first and most important things for a critic to learn is how to sleep undetected in the theater.
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One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.
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One problem I have definitely solved is the problem of not having enough to worry about.
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One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.
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