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There are two golden rules for an orchestra: start together and finish together. The public doesn't give a damn what goes on in between.
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There could be no honor in a sure success, but much might be wrested from a sure defeat.
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There is a danger in being persuaded before one understands.
Maxims (1781) 109 -
There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write.
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There is a great gulf between the really creative person and normal people. The totally creative person does not have the rest of his life in proper proportion.
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There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents.
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There is no action of man in this life which is not the beginning of so long a chain of consequences, as that no human providence is high enough to give us a prospect to the end.
Leviathan ch. 31 -
There is no alleviation for the sufferings of mankind except veracity of thought and of action, and the resolute facing of the world as it is when the garment of make-believe by which pious hands have hidden its uglier features is stripped off.
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There is no greater impediment to the advancement of knowledge than the ambiguity of words.
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There is no greater mistake than the hasty conclusion that opinions are worthless because they are badly argued.
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There is no psychology; there is only biography and autobiography.
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There is no sea more dangerous than the ocean of practical politics - none in which there is more need of good pilots and of a single, unfaltering purpose when the waves rise high.
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There is no substitute for hard work.
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There is no such thing as perpetual tranquillity of mind while we live here; because life itself is but motion, and can never be without desire, nor without fear, no more than without sense.
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There is often more spiritual force in a proverb than in whole philosophical systems.
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There is something suspicious about music, gentlemen. I insist that she is, by her nature, equivocal. I shall not be going too far in saying at once that she is politically suspect.
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There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun.
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There is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life.
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There should be a certain ratio between those who are most inclined to think, and those who are most inclined to act.
History of civilization
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