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A life without adventure is likely to be unsatisfying, but a life in which adventure is allowed to take whatever form it will is sure to be short.
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A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring; There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain; And drinking largely sobers us again.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing, but a lot of ignorance is just as bad.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing, but we must take that risk because a little is as much as our biggest heads can hold.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
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A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.
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A lonely man is a lonesome thing, a stone, a bone, a stick, a receptacle for Gilbey's gin, a stooped figure sitting at the edge of a hotel bed, heaving copious sighs like the autumn wind.
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A lot of football success is in the mind. You must believe you are the best and then make sure that you are.
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A lot of people are frightened by old age - by being around people who are, basically, on their way out - but I'm fascinated by it. It's an amazing thing to be around someone who has had a life well lived.
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A lovely thing about Christmas is that it's compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together.
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A man to carry on a successful business must have imagination. He must see things as in a vision, a dream of the whole thing.
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A man's conscience and his judgment is the same thing; and as the judgment, so also the conscience, may be erroneous.
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A mathematical proof is beautiful, but when you're finished, it's really only about one thing. A story can be about many things.
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A mother should give her children a superabundance of enthusiasm; that after they have lost all they are sure to lose on mixing with the world, enough may still remain to prompt fated support them through great actions.
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A nice thing about being at Disney is that these movies can develop into a presence in theme parks and become something real, or maybe get a sequel or tell other stories.
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A person being patient with an insane person is my favorite thing in the world.
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A person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn and not easily mended.
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A political organization is a transferable commodity. You could not find a better way of killing virtue than by packing it into one of these contraptions which some gang of thieves is sure to find useful.
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A poor relation is the most irrelevant thing in nature, a piece of impertinent correspondence, an odious approximation, a haunting conscience, a preposterous shadow, lengthening in the noon-tide of our prosperity. He is known by his knock.
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A profoundly disturbing thing you discover very quickly traveling in Cuba is that the most dangerous person for Cubans isn't the police or even the secret police; it's their neighbor. Anyone can report you for anything 'outside' the revolution - even if you haven't done it yet.
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