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For the person for whom small things do not exist, the great is not great.
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For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.
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For things to have value in man's world, they are given the role of commodities. Among man's oldest and most constant commodity is woman.
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For those trying to protect the past, it is a way of retaining power, status, money, a way a life, predictability, comfort, control, and a bunch of other things like that. It is a struggle against the inevitability of change.
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For undemocratic reasons and for motives not of State, they arrive at their conclusions - largely inarticulate. Being void of self-expression they confide their views to none; but sometimes in a smoking room, one learns why things were done.
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For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.
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For Wealth are all things that conduce, to one's destruction or their use. A standard both to buy and sell, all things from heaven down to hell.
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Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself.
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Four be the things I'd better without: love, curiosity, freckles and doubt.
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Friendship is constant in all other things save in the office and affairs of love.
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Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports.
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Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.
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Friendships are fragile things, and require as much handling as any other fragile and precious thing.
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From some things that I have said one may get the idea that some of the slaves did not want freedom. This is not true. I have never seen one who did not want to be free, or one who would return to slavery.
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From where can your authority and license as a parent come from, when you who are old, do worse things?
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Fun I love, but too much fun is of all things the most loathsome. Mirth is better than fun, and happiness is better than mirth.
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Game management, game decisions, adjustments, seeing things during games - it's all important.
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Genius is nothing more than our common faculties refined to a greater intensity. There are no astonishing ways of doing astonishing things. All astonishing things are done by ordinary materials.
Source: Benjamin Robert Haydon: Correspondence and Table-talk, Volume 2 (Chatto and Windus, 1876), p. 311 -
Genius, scholar, and war hero though he is, you have to admit - or maybe you should think about admitting - that George Bush might have rushed things a little in invading Iraq.
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