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'Tis not what man does which exalts him, but what man Would do!
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'Tis well enough for a servant to be bred at an University. But the education is a little too pedantic for a gentleman.
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'We are always doing,' says he, 'something for posterity, but I would see posterity do something for us.'
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(George H. W. Bush) won't take the lead in protecting the environment and creating new jobs in environmental technologies for the 21st century, but I will. And you know what else? He doesn't have Al Gore, and I do.
A Place Called Hope, speech to the 1992 Democratic National Convention accepting the Democratic nomination for President (July 16, 1992) -
... a woman... told us she was forever getting herself into trouble. But I just keep coming back, she said. I just keep showing up for my life. Showing up for life. Being blessed with the rebirth that recovery brings.
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1 have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.
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A bachelor is one who wants a wife, but is glad he hasn't got her.
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A bad play folds and is forgotten, but in pictures we don't bury our dead. When you think it's out of your system, your daughter sees it on television and says, My father is an idiot.
Culture and Commitment, 1929-1945 (1973) -
A big man has no time really to do anything but just sit and be big.
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A blind man knows he cannot see, and is glad to be led, though it be by a dog; but he that is blind in his understanding, which is the worst blindness of all, believes he sees as the best, and scorns a guide.
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A candle burned on the table, a candle burned... he whispered to himself — the beginning of something confused, formless; he hoped that it would take shape of itself. But nothing more came to him.
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A canner exceedingly canny
One morning remarked to his granny:
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Anything that he can
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A cause may be inconvenient, but it's magnificent. It's like champagne or high heels, and one must be prepared to suffer for it.
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A celibate, like the fly in the heart of an apple, dwells in a perpetual sweetness, but sits alone, and is confined and dies in singularity.
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A Chicago alderman once confessed he needed physical exercise but didn't like jogging, because in that sport you couldn't hit anyone.
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A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purpose of becoming better.
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