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Among other things, autoimmune disorders are an induction into a world of unstable information and no reliable expertise.
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Among the repulsions of atheism for me has been its drastic uninterestingness as an intellectual position. Where was the ingenuity, the ambiguity, the humanity (in the Harvard sense) of saying that the universe just happened to happen and that when we're dead we're dead?
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Among the roles I've played on stage, television and in films were politicos as diverse as Abe Lincoln, Juan Peron, Herman Goering, George Wallace and both Roosevelts.
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Amongst the financial Twitterati, the term 'muppets' has come to describe any client used and abused by some financial predator. I've adopted the term to describe portfolios that have been assembled for purposes other than serving the clients' best interests.
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Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain.
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An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions.
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An advertising agency is 85 percent confusion and 15 percent commission.
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An affair now and then is good for a marriage. It adds spice, stops it from getting boring... I ought to know.
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An almost hysterical antagonism toward the gold standard is one issue which unites statists of all persuasions. They seem to sense... that gold and economic freedom are inseparable.
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An American cannot converse, but he can discuss, and his talk falls into a dissertation. He speaks to you as if he was addressing a meeting; and if he should chance to become warm in the discussion, he will say ''Gentlemen'' to the person with whom he is conversing.
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An angel is a spiritual creature created by God without a body for the service of Christendom and the church.
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An aphorism can never be the whole truth; it is either a half-truth or a truth-and-a-half.
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An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and complete in itself like a hedgehog.
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An apology for the actions of some troops who, of course, are not representative of the majority of the armed forces here, I think that would have been useful and it would have helped to some extent.
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An architect should live as little in cities as a painter. Send him to our hills, and let him study there what nature understands by a buttress, and what by a dome.
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An army without culture is a dull-witted army, and a dull-witted army cannot defeat the enemy.
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An arrow may fly through the air and leave no trace; but an ill thought leaves a trail like a serpent.
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An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why.
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An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.
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An artist's early work is inevitably made up of a mixture of tendencies and interests, some of which are compatible and some of which are in conflict.
The Eyes Mind: Collected Writings 1965-2009 (2009)
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