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...a state is not the same thing as a society, although the Greeks and Romans thought it was. A state is an organization of power on a territorial basis.
Source: Oscar Iden Lecture Series, Lecture 3: The State of Individuals (1976) -
A book is like a man: clever and dull, brave and cowardly, beautiful and ugly. For every flowering thought there will be a page like a wet and mangy mongrel, and for every looping flight a tap on the wing and a reminder that wax cannot hold the feathers firm too near the sun.
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A candidate could easily commit political suicide if he were to come up with an unconventional thought during a presidential tour.
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A couple of compromises in a row and suddenly you're very far way from the person you thought you were.
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A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.
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A friend of mine - a cameraman at MTV - lost a lot of weight from cycling, and I thought I'd try it, too, thinking whenever you look at a cyclist they all look super-skinny, so hey, why not? But then it turned into such a psychologically satisfying thing.
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A guy's who has all the money he needs and never faced any hard times, he won't have any character. But when you've had it tough and you've had it rough and you thought you were at the end of the rope and you work your way out of it, that's the way you build character.
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A library is thought in cold storage.
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A line will take us hours maybe; Yet if it does not seem a moment's thought, our stitching and unstinting has been naught.
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A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money.
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A lot of people thought I'd died, because of your coverage, they know I'm still around.
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A lot of people thought Steve Jobs was a CEO of Apple but he never was until he came back to Apple in 1997.
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A man can become so accustomed to the thought of his own faults that he will begin to cherish them as charming little ''personal characteristics.''
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A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labor and there is invisible labor.
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A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.
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A man of the world must seem to be what he wishes to be thought.
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A new disease? I know not, new or old, but it may well be called poor mortals plague for, like a pestilence, it doth infect the houses of the brain till not a thought, or motion, in the mind, be free from the black poison of suspect.
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A people numerically large may attain to ways of thought and enterprise that no political censure can reduce to a minimum; but under narrower conditions, it may easily come about that the whole people will fall asleep.
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A perfectly healthy sentence, it is true, is extremely rare. For the most part we miss the hue and fragrance of the thought; as if we could be satisfied with the dews of the morning or evening without their colors, or the heavens without their azure.
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