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A policy is a temporary creed liable to be changed, but while it holds good it has got to be pursued with apostolic zeal.
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A pool is, for many of us in the West, a symbol not of affluence but of order, of control over the uncontrollable. A pool is water, made available and useful, and is, as such, infinitely soothing to the western eye.
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A poor relation is the most irrelevant thing in nature, a piece of impertinent correspondence, an odious approximation, a haunting conscience, a preposterous shadow, lengthening in the noon-tide of our prosperity. He is known by his knock.
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A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering.
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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 president's hardest task is not to do what is right, but to know what is right.
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A profoundly disturbing thing you discover very quickly traveling in Cuba is that the most dangerous person for Cubans isn't the police or even the secret police; it's their neighbor. Anyone can report you for anything 'outside' the revolution - even if you haven't done it yet.
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A prosperous state makes a secure Christian, but adversity makes him Consider.
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A puppy plays with every pup he meets, but an old dog has few associates.
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A recipe is not an exact formula, but it does need a certain structure. When the bones are right, you can dress it in many ways.
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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 reputation once broken may possibly be repaired, but the world will always keep their eyes on the spot where the crack was.
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A rule I have had for years is: to treat the Lord Jesus Christ as a personal friend. His is not a creed, a mere doctrine, but it is He Himself we have.
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A safe but sometimes chilly way of recalling the past is to force open a crammed drawer. If you are searching for anything in particular you don't find it, but something falls out at the back that is often more interesting.
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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 sane person doesn't think war is a good idea. I'm not a pacifist. I feel that there are situations where fighting is inescapable, but we don't go looking for those things.
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A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.
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A search is a search, even if it happens to disclose nothing but the bottom of a turntable.
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