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A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party; there is no battle unless there be two.
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A racehorse that consistently runs just a second faster than another horse is worth millions of dollars more. Be willing to give that extra effort that separates the winner from the one in second place.
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A radical is one of whom people say ''He goes too far.'' A conservative, on the other hand, is one who ''doesn't go far enough.'' Then there is the reactionary, ''one who doesn't go at all.'' All these terms are more or less objectionable, wherefore we have
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A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.
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A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
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A refined simplicity is the characteristic of all high bred deportment, in every country, and a considerate humanity should be the aim of all beneath it.
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A reformer is one who sets forth cheerfully toward sure defeat.
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A relationship is like a rose, How long it lasts, no one knows; Love can erase an awful past, Love can be yours, you'll see at last; To feel that love, it makes you sigh, To have it leave, you'd rather die; You hope you've found that special rose, 'Cause you love and care for the one you chose.
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A remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he is really very good in spite of all the people who say he is very good.
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A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery; it cannot be so refined, so leisurely and gentle, so temperate, kind, courteous, restrained and magnanimous. A revolution is an insurrection, an act of violence by which one class overthrows another.
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A right is not what someone gives you, it's what no one can take away from you.
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A satisfied customer is the best business strategy of all.
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A scholar is like a book written in a dead language. It is not every one that can read in it.
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A screen actor is compensated in the knowledge that millions will see his performance at one time, where only hundreds will see it on the stage.
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A security cam is one small part of a much larger universe of cams. The much larger effect, socially, politically and economically, is going to come from a much larger trend.
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A self-made man? Yes, and one who worships his creator.
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A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.
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A serious problem in America is the gap between academe and the mass media, which is our culture. Professors of humanities, with all their leftist fantasies, have little direct knowledge of American life and no impact whatever on public policy.
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A ship is always referred to as "she" because it costs so much to keep one in paint and powder.
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A shocking crime was committed on the unscrupulous initiative of few individuals, with the blessing of more, and amid the passive acquiescence of all.
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