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A cathedral, a wave of storm, a dancer's leap, never turn out to be as high as we had hoped.
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A commodity appears at first sight an extremely obvious, trivial thing. But its analysis brings out that it is a very strange thing, abounding in metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties.
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A competitor will find a way to win. Competitors take bad breaks and use them to drive themselves just that much harder. Quitters take bad breaks and use them as reasons to give up. It's all a matter of pride.
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A corollary is that, when laws are out of touch with the people, those laws can and should be changed - from the most simple local regulations to the highest law of the land, our federal Constitution.
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A couple of compromises in a row and suddenly you're very far way from the person you thought you were.
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A daydream is a meal at which images are eaten. Some of us are gourmets, some gourmands, and a good many take their images precooked out of a can and swallow them down whole, absent-mindedly and with little relish.
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A dead end can never be a one way street; you can always turn around and take another road.
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A diplomat is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip.
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A fellow who has a funny bone can learn to hone his skills, but I don't think you can develop a funny bone - you either have it or you don't. And by the way - when you get it, we don't know it.
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A glorious Church is like a magnificent feast; there is all the variety that may be, but every one chooses out a dish or two that he likes, and lets the rest alone: how glorious soever the Church is, every one chooses out of it his own religion, by which he governs himself, and lets the rest alone.
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A good essay must have this permanent quality about it; it must draw its curtain round us, but it must be a curtain that shuts us in not out.
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A good man, is a good man, whether in this church, or out of it.
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A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.
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A good plan is like a road map: it shows the final destination and usually the best way to get there.
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A good teacher feels his way, looking for response.
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A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug.
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A great architect is not made by way of a brain nearly so much as he is made by way of a cultivated, enriched heart.
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A great writer creates a world of his own and his readers are proud to live in it. A lesser writer may entice them in for a moment, but soon he will watch them filing out.
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A guy's who has all the money he needs and never faced any hard times, he won't have any character. But when you've had it tough and you've had it rough and you thought you were at the end of the rope and you work your way out of it, that's the way you build character.
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A heap of epithets is poor praise: the praise lies in the facts, and in the way of telling them.
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