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A professional soldier understands that war means killing people, war means maiming people, war means families left without fathers and mothers.
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A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you're looking down, you can't see something that's above you.
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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 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 renewed commitment to the freedom and opportunity of our people is the touchstone of our time. In this new century, where tests are many and challenges change with the shifting of the wind, we must hold fast to the principles that have made our nation the envy of the world.
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A rich man told me recently that a liberal is a man who tells other people what to do with their money.
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A roast is like a get-together where people come down and talk about you and dog you out, the way you came up, the knucklehead things that you did, stuff like that.
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A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
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A silly idea is current that good people do not know what temptation means. This is an obvious lie. Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is.... A man who gives in to temptation after five minutes simply does not know what it would have been like an hour later. That is why bad people, in one sense, know very little about badness. They have lived a sheltered life by always giving in.
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A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it.
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A slave has but one master. An ambition man, has as many as there are people who helped him get his fortune.
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A society in which all men and women would become people of substantive reason, whose independent reasoning would have structural consequences for their societies, its history and thus for their own life fates.
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A society person who is enthusiastic about modern painting or Truman Capote is already half a traitor to his class. It is middle-class people who, quite mistakenly, imagine that a lively pursuit of the latest in reading and painting will advance their status in the world.
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A society that presumes a norm of violence and celebrates aggression, whether in the subway, on the football field, or in the conduct of its business, cannot help making celebrities of the people who would destroy it.
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A strenuous effort must be made to train young people to think for themselves and take independent charge of their lives.
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A suicide kills two people, Maggie, that's what it's for!
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A surgeon is surrounded by people who are sick, discouraged, afraid, embittered, dying - but also courageous, loving, wise, compassionate and alive.
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A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.
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A thing that you see in my pictures is that I was not afraid to fall in love with these people.
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A toddling little girl is a center of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understand each other.
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