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  • Anatole Broyard The tension between 'yes' and 'no,' between 'I can' and 'I cannot,' makes us feel that, in so many instances, human life is an interminable debate with one's self.
    Anatole Broyard
    American writer, literary critic, and editor (0 - 1990)
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  • Arthur Levitt The tension between centrality, on the one hand, and competition, on the other, is probably the oldest of all market structure issues.
    Arthur Levitt
    American SEC chairman (1931 - )
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  • Ann Macbeth The tensions are always based on financial resources. Something like film is very problematic because it is viewed as an art form and also as an industry with a pure commercial base.
    Ann Macbeth
    British embroiderer, designer, teacher and author (1875 - 1948)
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  • Milovan Djilas The terrible thing is that one cannot be a Communist and not let oneself in for the shameful act of recantation. One cannot be a Communist and preserve an iota of one's personal integrity.
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  • Salvador Dali The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.
    Salvador Dali
    Spanish painter (1904 - 1989)
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  • Joseph Conrad The terrorist and the policeman both come from the same basket.
    Source: The sacred agent (1907)
    Joseph Conrad
    In Poland born English writer (1857 - 1924)
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  • Carl Levin The terrorist attacks of September 11th and the courageous actions of our armed forces in Afghanistan and Iraq remind us that friends of tyranny and enemies of freedom still exist.
    Carl Levin
    American attorney (1934 - )
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  • Bill Nelson The terrorist uses surprise and stealth, and the only way to defeat that is by having accurate and timely intelligence.
    Bill Nelson
    American attorney and politician (1942 - )
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  • Bryant H. McGill The test of a belief is not exclusively in the belief itself, but also in the intentions and actions of those who embrace it.
    Bryant H. McGill
    American journalist and author (1969 - )
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  • F. Scott Fitzgerald The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    American writer (1896 - 1940)
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  • Robert Fitzgerald The test of a given phrase would be: Is it worthy to be immortal? To ''make a beeline'' for something. That's worthy of being immortal and is immortal in English idiom. ''I guess I'll split'' is not going to be immortal and is excludable, therefore excluded.
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  • Billy Graham The test of a preacher is that his congregation goes away saying, not, 'What a lovely sermon!' but 'I will do something.
    Billy Graham
    American Evangelist (1918 - 2018)
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  • Thornton Wilder The test of an adventure is that when you're in the middle of it, you say to yourself, ''Oh, now I've got myself into an awful mess; I wish I were sitting quietly at home.'' And the sign that something's wrong with you is when you sit quietly at home wish
    Thornton Wilder
    American writer and playwright (1897 - 1975)
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  • Ben Vereen The theater was my first training ground. It taught me discipline, dedication and appreciation of hard work.
    Ben Vereen
    American actor, dancer and singer (1946 - )
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  • Enid Bagnold The theatre is a gross art, built in sweeps and over-emphasis. Compromise is its second name.
    Enid Bagnold
    British writer, playwright (1889 - 1981)
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  • David Hare The theatre is the best way of showing the gap between what is said and what is seen to be done, and that is why, ragged and gap-toothed as it is, it has still a far healthier potential than some poorer, abandoned arts.
    David Hare
    British Playwright, Director (1947 - )
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  • George Santayana The theatre, for all its artifices, depicts life in a sense more truly than history, because the medium has a kindred movement to that of real life, though an artificial setting and form.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • Carson McCullers The theme is the theme of humiliation, which is the square root of sin, as opposed to the freedom from humiliation, and love, which is the square root of wonderful.
    Carson McCullers
    American novelist and poet (1917 - 1967)
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  • Giuseppe Mazzini The theory of rights enables us to rise and overthrow obstacles, but not to found a strong and lasting accord between all the elements which compose the nation.
    Giuseppe Mazzini
    Italian writer (1805 - 1872)
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  • Adam Smith The theory that can absorb the greatest number of facts, and persist in doing so, generation after generation, through all changes of opinion and detail, is the one that must rule all observation.
    Adam Smith
    Scottish Economist (1723 - 1790)
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