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Politics is a place of humble hopes and strangely modest requirements, where all are good who are not criminal and all are wise who are not ridiculously otherwise.
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Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? He thinks I don't know the ten-dollar words. I know them all right. But there are older and simpler and better words, and those are the ones I use.
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Pornography is rather like trying to find out about a Beethoven symphony by having somebody tell you about it and perhaps hum a few bars.
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Post-modernism has cut off the present from all futures. The daily media add to this by cutting off the past. Which means that critical opinion is often orphaned in the present.
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Posterity is the world to come; the world for whom we hold our ideals, from whom we have borrowed our planet, and to whom we bear sacred responsibility. We must do what America does best: offer more opportunity to all and demand responsibility from all.
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Power is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.
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Praise from an enemy is the most pleasing of all commendations.
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Prayer is talking with God and telling Him you love Him, conversing with God about all the things that are important in life, both large and small, and being assured that He is listening.
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Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered.
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Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by children.
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Pride is an admission of weakness; it secretly fears all competition and dreads all rivals.
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Primrose-eyes each morning ope In their cool, deep beds of grass; Violets make the air that pass Tell-tales of their fragrant slope.
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Princes give me sufficiently if they take nothing from me, and do me much good if they do me no hurt; it is all I require of them.
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Princess on the steeple and all the pretty people, they're drinkin', thinkin' that they got it made
Highway 61 Revisited (1965) -
Probably all the attention to poetry results in some value, though the attention is more often directed to lesser than to greater values.
Set in motion: essays, interviews, and dialogues (1996 edition), Univ of Michigan Pr -
Probably the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton, but the opening battles of all subsequent wars have been lost there.
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Proclaim not all thou knowest, all thou knowest, all thou hast, nor all thou cans't.
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Procrastination is the thief of time: Year after year it steals, till all are fled, and to the mercies of a moment leaves The vast concerns of an eternal scene.
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Producing is nothing more than bringing all the elements together, connecting people.
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