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Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.
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Private victories precede public victories. You can't invert that process any more than you can harvest a crop before you plant it.
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Probably all the attention to poetry results in some value, though the attention is more often directed to lesser than to greater values.
Source: Set in motion: essays, interviews, and dialogues (1996 edition), Univ of Michigan Pr -
Probably it is impossible for humor to be ever a revolutionary weapon. Candide can do little more than generate irony.
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Probably more than anybody else, I loved Nat 'King' Cole as a performer - not only his singing but his piano playing. Whenever he had a new record come out, I'd get it and try to learn how he was playing. And he was one of the nicest people I'd ever met.
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Probably nothing in the world arouses more false hopes Than the first four hours of a diet.
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Producing is nothing more than bringing all the elements together, connecting people.
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Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.
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Prosperity is the measure or touchstone of virtue, for it is less difficult to bear misfortune than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
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Prudence operates on life in the same manner as rule of composition; it produces vigilance rather than elevation; rather prevents loss than procures advantage; and often miscarriages, but seldom reaches either power or honor.
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Psychologically, it's always more pleasurable to blame others for our problems than it is to acknowledge our own responsibility.
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Public housing is more than just a place to live, public housing programs should provide opportunities to residents and their families.
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Put every light you have on a dimmer. Because after a certain age, we can play with the lighting and set it on how you look best on it. It's cheaper than plastic surgery.
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Put the world's greatest philosopher on a plank that is wider than need be; if there is a precipice below, although his reason may convince him that he is safe, his imagination will prevail.
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Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention. Still less can he afford to take all the consequences, including the vitiating of his temper and loss of self control. Yield larger things to which you can show no more than equal right; and yield lesser ones, though clearly your own. Better give your path to a dog than be bitten by him in contesting for the right. Even killing the dog would not cure the bite.
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Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear.
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Racism is a much more clandestine, much more hidden kind of phenomenon, but at the same time it's perhaps far more terrible than it's ever been.
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