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Overall, one of the things that excites me most about self-publishing is that the highest-value use of my time in promoting the books will be found in writing more of them.
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Oxford is Oxford: not a mere receptacle for youth, like Cambridge. Perhaps it wants its inmates to love it rather than to love one another.
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Pain and pleasure, grief and joy, passions and sensations succeed each other, and never all exist at the same time.
A Treatise of Human Nature (1739) -
Pain has its own noble joy, when it starts a strong consciousness of life, from a stagnant one.
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Pain is real when you get other people to believe in it. If no one believes in it but you, your pain is madness or hysteria.
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Pains of love be sweeter far than all the other pleasures are.
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Painting is something that requires a lot of time - it's not just one good idea out of art school.
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Painting is, I think, inevitably an archaic activity and one that depends on spiritual values.
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Paper and ink are all but trash, if I cannot find the thought which the writer did think.
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Parents cannot be in the same physical space as their children at all times.
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Parents need all the help they can get. The strongest as well as the most fragile family requires a vital network of social supports.
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Parents of young children should realize that few people, and maybe no one, will find their children as enchanting as they do.
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Part of my evolution has been to learn how painful most people's childhoods are. They grow up not liking themselves, not loving themselves. Ask people if they were lovable the minute they were born, and watch them sit back and have to think about it. One lady said, 'I suppose so.' That's painful.
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Part of my job is to train people to break down an involved question into a series of simple matters. Then we can all act intelligently
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Part of the reason that our politics seems so tough right now and facts and science and argument does not seem to be winning the day all the time is because we're hardwired not to always think clearly when we're scared. And the country's scared.
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Parting is all we know of heaven and all we need of hell.
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Pat Moynihan could write books with one hand and legislate with the other. I can't; I have a short attention span. The slightest distraction would take me away from writing.
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Patriotism in the female sex is the most disinterested of all virtues. Excluded from honors and from offices, we cannot attach ourselves to the State or Government from having held a place of eminence.... Yet all history and every age exhibit instances of patriotic virtue in the female sex; which considering our situation equals the most heroic of yours.
Letter to John Adams, 17 June 1782 -
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
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Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.
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