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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 pint can't hold a quart - if it holds a pint it is doing all that can be expected of it.
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A pity beyond all telling is hid in the heart of love.
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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 political leader must keep looking over his shoulder all the time to see if the boys are still there. If they aren't still there, he's no longer a political leader.
Bernard M. Baruch
American investor, philanthropist, statesman, and political consultant (1870 - 1965) -
A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
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A practical botanist will distinguish at the first glance the plant of the different quarters of the globe and yet will be at a loss to tell by what marks he detects them.
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A radical is one of whom people say ''He goes too far.'' A conservative, on the other hand, is one who ''doesn't go far enough.'' Then there is the reactionary, ''one who doesn't go at all.'' All these terms are more or less objectionable, wherefore we have
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A refined simplicity is the characteristic of all high bred deportment, in every country, and a considerate humanity should be the aim of all beneath it.
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A remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he is really very good in spite of all the people who say he is very good.
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A revolutionary poem will not tell you who or when to kill, what and when to burn, or even how to theorize. It reminds you... where and when and how you are living and might live, it is a wick of desire.
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A Roman divorced from his wife, being highly blamed by his friends, who demanded, ''Was she not chaste? Was she not fair? Was she not fruitful?'' holding out his shoe, asked them whether it was not new and well made. ''Yet,'' added he, ''none of you can tell where it pinches me.
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A salesman must also have flexible goals. You may say, ''I want to sell 10 accounts this week,'' and you sell five. You're ready to die. But, you tell yourself, ''Five isn't too bad. You know, next week maybe I'll sell 10.
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A satisfied customer is the best business strategy of all.
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A serious problem in America is the gap between academe and the mass media, which is our culture. Professors of humanities, with all their leftist fantasies, have little direct knowledge of American life and no impact whatever on public policy.
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A shocking crime was committed on the unscrupulous initiative of few individuals, with the blessing of more, and amid the passive acquiescence of all.
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A society in which all men and women would become people of substantive reason, whose independent reasoning would have structural consequences for their societies, its history and thus for their own life fates.
The Sociological Imagination (1959) -
A society made up of individuals who were all capable of original thought would probably be unendurable.
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A song will outlive all sermons in the memory.
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A songwriter writes songs all the time, whereas just writing a song can be done by anyone, anytime.
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