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There is safety in reserve, but no attraction. One cannot love a reserved person.
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There is so much history of this racist violence that simply to bring one person to justice is not going to disturb the whole racist edifice.
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There is something about music that keeps its distance even at the moment that it engulfs us. It is at the same time outside and away from us and inside and part of us. In one sense it dwarfs us, and in another we master it.
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There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.
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There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathize with the color, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better.
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THERE is widespread agreement among economists that abuse of credit constitutes one of the chief unwholesome elements in business booms and is mainly responsible for the ensuing crash and depression.
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There isn't any formula or method. You learn to love by loving - by paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be done.
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There lies at the back of every creed something terrible and hard for which the worshipper may one day be required to suffer.
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There may be as much nobility in being last as in being first, because the two positions are equally necessary in the world, the one to complement the other.
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There never comes a point where a theory can be said to be true. The most that one can claim for any theory is that it has shared the successes of all its rivals and that it has passed at least one test which they have failed.
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There should be one day when there is open season on senators.
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There was a time when my whole life was in chaos, really, and I didn't help myself sort it out. But one day I came to my senses, and I think I was lucky because a lot of people don't.
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There was one titanic guiding light on the film set, and I was in the presence of a true Mahatma, in the deepest and most profound sense of the word.
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There was one who thought himself above me, and he was above me until he had that thought.
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There was only one virtue, pugnacity; only one vice, pacifism. That is an essential condition of war.
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There were about six years when there was not one American who went into space. We shouldn't do that again.
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There's a graveyard in northern France where all the dead boys from D-Day are buried. The white crosses reach from one horizon to the other. I remember looking it over and thinking it was a forest of graves. But the rows were like this, dizzying, diagonal, perfectly straight, so after all it wasn't a forest but an orchard of graves. Nothing to do with nature, unless you count human nature.
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There's a huge raft of roles that actors in our culture perform, and you can see any one of about three Hamlets in a year. It's not something to be completely daunted by.
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There's a subterranean impetus towards pornography so powerful that half the business world is juiced by the sort of half sex that one finds in advertisements.
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There's many a one who would be idle if hunger didn't pinch him; but the stomach sets us to work.
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