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The Reservoir system will function not only as an equalizer of business conditions, but also as a national store to meet further emergencies, such as war and drought, and-most important of all-as the concrete means of developing a steadily higher living standard for all.
Source: Storage and Stability Part II, Ch. IV, A Plan For Conserving Surplus, p. -
The responses of human beings vary greatly under dangerous circumstances. The strong man advances boldly to meet them head on. The weak man grows agitated. But the superior man stands up to fate, endures resolutely in his inner certainty If ignorant both
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The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.
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The rewards are going to come, but my happiness is just loving the sport and having fun performing.
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The rich are always advising the poor, but the poor seldom return the compliment.
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The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.
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The riches of the soul are stored up in its memory. this is the test of character, not whether a man follows the daily fashion, but whether the past is alive in his present.
Source: Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity: Essays (1997) p. 333 -
The right of petition, I have said, was not conferred on the People by the Constitution, but was a pre-existing right, reserved by the People out of the grants of power made to Congress.
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The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.
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The road to learning by precept is long, but by example short and effective.
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The road to wisdom? Well, it's plain and simple to express: Errand err again but less and less and less.
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The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.
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The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
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The rules and principles of case law have never been treated as final truths but as working hypotheses, continually retested in those great laboratories of the law, the courts of justice. Every new case is an experiment, and if the accepted rule which seems applicable yields a result which is felt to be unjust, the rule is reconsidered.
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The Russians are extreme people: they are generous but crazy at the same time. They always have something to say, and I really like that.
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The saddest utensil I've come across is an 'anti-loneliness ramen bowl,' which holds your iPhone to keep you company as you slurp your solitary bowl of noodles. But the iPhone cannot return your gaze or reassure you that you didn't squeeze too much lime into the soup, though maybe a dinner-conversation app is only a matter of time.
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The satirist who writes nothing but satire should write but little - or it will seem that his satire springs rather from his own caustic nature than from the sins of the world in which he lives.
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The saying that beauty is but skin deep is but a skin deep saying.
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The scenery in the play was beautiful, but the actors got in front of it.
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The scrupulous and the just, the noble, humane, and devoted natures; the unselfish and the intelligent may begin a movement - but it passes away from them. They are not the leaders of a revolution. They are its victims.
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