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The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.
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The studious class are their own victims: they are thin and pale, their feet are cold, their heads are hot, the night is without sleep, the day a fear of interruption - pallor, squalor, hunger, and egotism.
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The successful people of this world take life as it comes. They just go out and deal with the world as it is.
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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 sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider marriage as the sole object in life, and to pretend that they do not think so.
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The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands.
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The superficiality of the American is the result of his hustling. It needs leisure to think things out; it needs leisure to mature. People in a hurry cannot think, cannot grow, nor can they decay. They are preserved in a state of perpetual puerility.
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The superiority of some men is merely local. They are great because their associates are little.
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The surprising thing about young fools is how many survive to become old fools.
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The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.
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The telling of jokes is an art of its own, and it always rises from some emotional threat. The best jokes are dangerous, and dangerous because they are in some way truthful.
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The terrible thing about terrorism is that ultimately it destroys those who practice it. Slowly but surely, as they try to extinguish life in others, the light within them dies.
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The terrible thing is that one cannot be a Communist and not let oneself in for the shameful act of recantation. One cannot be a Communist and preserve an iota of one's personal integrity.
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The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.
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The test to which all methods of treatment are finally brought is whether they are lucrative to doctors or not.
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The thing about grief is that it's a roller coaster - it's up, it's down. The emotions sometimes take over.
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The thing about Iceland is that we are trapped there anyway, all of us. We have been trapped there for thousands of years.
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The thing about inspiration is that it takes your mind off everything else.
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The thing about New York is it's like London: you want to go to the boutique places. You can go to the big department stores - Barney's, Bloomingdales and all that stuff - but I like the little stores.
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The thing about opium is that it makes pain or difficulty unimaginable.
Engleby (2007)
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