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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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A person may dwell so long upon a thought that it may take him a prisoner.
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A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment.
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A public opinion poll is no substitute for thought.
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A self made man is a rarity and hated by the parasites that floated to fame thought their parents, relatives and contacts.
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A show that no one thought had a chance has just finished its fifth year: Charmed. I think it's tougher for the younger networks, so I think they have a little more patience for the sake of the show. But who knows?
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A simple grateful thought turned heavenwards is the most perfect prayer.
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A single idea - the sudden flash of a thought - may be worth a million dollars.
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A single word even may be a spark of inextinguishable thought.
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A society made up of individuals who were all capable of original thought would probably be unendurable.
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A strict belief, fate is the worst kind of slavery; on the other hand there is comfort in the thought that God will be moved by our prayers.
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A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of.
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A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.
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A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.
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A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and an action which does not proceed from a thought is nothing at all.
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A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged, it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and the time in which it is used.
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Abuse if you slight it, will gradually die away; but if you show yourself irritated, you will be thought to have deserved it.
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Acting is not about dressing up. Acting is about stripping bare. The whole essence of learning lines is to forget them so you can make them sound like you thought of them that instant.
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