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Some people swallow the universe like a pill; they travel on through the world, like smiling images pushed from behind.
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Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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Sylvia Plath was just a month and a half older than I, and when she committed suicide I was only 30 - and very shocked and sorry. I never knew her personally.
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Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health.
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Teofilo Stevenson won his first Olympic gold medal in 1972 and his last world amateur championship in 1986. He won 302 fights and once went an unbelievable 11 years without a loss. Had Cuba not boycotted the 1984 Summer Olympics, many think Stevenson would have won an unmatched four gold medals in boxing.
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The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have to shave twice a day.
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The bold may not live long, but the timid never live at all.
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The cruelest lies are often told in silence. A man may have sat in a room for hours and not opened his mouth, and yet come out of that room a disloyal friend or a vile calumniator.
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The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.
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The human race has improved everything, but the human race.
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The journey of a thousand leagues begins with a single step. So we must never neglect any work of peace within our reach, however small.
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The little rift between the sexes is astonishingly widened by simply teaching one set of catchwords to the girls and another to the boys.
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The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.
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The relationship of the toastmaster to the speaker should be the same as that of the fan to the fan dancer. It should call attention to the subject without making any particular effort to cover it.
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The Republicans have a me too candidate running on a yes but platform, advised by a has been staff.
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The Republicans stroke platitudes until they purr like epigrams.
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The saints are the sinners who keep on trying.
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The time to stop a revolution is at the beginning, not the end.
Speech San Francisco (9 september 1952)
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