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The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.
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The solution often turns out more beautiful than the puzzle.
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The spirit of man is more important than mere physical strength, and the spiritual fiber of a nation than its wealth
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The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure. These qualities are so much more important than the events that occur.
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The State has but one face for me: that of the police. To my eyes, all of the State's ministries have this single face, and I cannot imagine the ministry of culture other than as the police of culture, with its prefect and commissioners.
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The study of social progress is today not less needed in literature than is the analysis of the human heart.
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The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.
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The success of a party means little more than that the Nation is using the party for a large and definite purpose. It seeks to use and interpret a change in its own plans and point of view.
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The successful person places more attention on doing the right thing rather than doing things right.
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The sure way to be cheated is to think one's self more cunning than others.
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The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.
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The suspicious mind believes more than it doubts. It believes in a formidable and ineradicable evil lurking in every person.
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The swift wind of compromise is a lot more devastating than the sudden jolt of misfortune.
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The system was aided by the Church, whose natural interests allied it more to the great than to the meek.
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The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do.
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The teller of a mirthful tale has latitude allowed him. We are content with less than absolute truth.
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The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all.
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The theater, bringing impersonal masks to life, is only for those who are virile enough to create new life: either as a conflict of passions subtler than those we already know, or as a complete new character.
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The theatre is the best way of showing the gap between what is said and what is seen to be done, and that is why, ragged and gap-toothed as it is, it has still a far healthier potential than some poorer, abandoned arts.
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