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A novel is never anything, but a philosophy put into images.
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A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
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A person is never happy till their vague strivings has itself marked out its proper limitations.
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A person that says, 'Losing is not difficult,' I don't even want to be around that person. And obviously, that person has never won anything relevant in their life.
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A person who knows how to laugh at himself will never ceased to be amused.
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A person with belief never grovels before anyone, whining and whimpering that it's all too much, that he lacks support, that he is being treated unfairly. Instead, such a person tackes problems head on and then affirms, 'As a child of God, I am greater than anything that can happen to me.
Wings of Fire -
A petty reason perhaps why novelists more and more try to keep a distance from journalists is that novelists are trying to write the truth and journalists are trying to write fiction.
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A philosopher who is not taking part in discussions is like a boxer who never goes into the ring.
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A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you.
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A poem may be an instance of morality, of social conditions, of psychological history; it may instance all its qualities, but never one of them alone, nor any two or three; never less than all.
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A politician never forgets the precarious nature of elective life. We have never established a practice of tenure in public office.
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A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering.
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A president either is constantly on top of events or, if he hesitates, events will soon be on top of him. I never felt that I could let up for a moment.
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A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise.
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A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.
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A public man must never forget that he loses his usefulness when he as an individual, rather than his policy, becomes the issue.
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A religion so cheerless, a philosophy so sorrowful, could never have succeeded with the masses of mankind if presented only as a system of metaphysics. Buddhism owed its success to its catholic spirit and its beautiful morality.
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A small child from a developing country has the advantage, from a very early age, of having access to toys which structure his mind, which constitute a sure advantage over the little African child who has never even held a modern toy.
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