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An autobiography is not about pictures; it's about the stories; it's about honesty and as much truth as you can tell without coming too close to other people's privacy.
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An awareness of one's mortality can lead you to wake up and live an authentic, meaningful life.
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An awful lot of England is slowly eroding, in ways that I find really distressing, and an awful lot of it is the hedgerows... We're reaching the point where a lot of the English countryside looks just like Iowa - just kind of open space.
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An educated man is thoroughly inoculated against humbug, thinks for himself and tries to give his thoughts, in speech or on paper, some style.
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An effeminate education weakens both the mind and the body.
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An epigram is a flashlight of a truth; a witticism, truth laughing at itself.
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An epigram is a half-truth so stated as to irritate the person who believes the other half.
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An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains.
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An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.
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An exaggeration is a truth that has lost its temper.
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An excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable; A villain, like the beams of a balance, is always varying, upwards and downwards, himself his own dungeon.
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An executive is a man who can make quick decisions and is sometimes right.
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An expensive arms race, under cover of the military metaphysic, and in a paranoid atmosphere of fright, is an economically attractive business. To many utopian capitalists, it has become the Business Way of American Life.
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An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less.
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An harmless flaming meteor shone for hair,
And fell adown his shoulders with loose care.Davideis, book ii, line 95. Compare: Loose his beard and hoary hair / Streamd like a meteor to the troubled air, Thomas Gray, The Bard, i. 2. -
An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence; a vain man, in order that it may.
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An idea is a feat of association, and the height of it is a good metaphor.
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An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.
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An idea is always a generalization, and generalization is a property of thinking. To generalize means to think.
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An impersonal and scientific knowledge of the structure of our bodies is the surest safeguard against prurient curiosity and lascivious gloating.
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