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We had a strong relationship with Walter Brown, and felt that he was the best owner in the league.
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We have long forgotten the ritual by which the house of our life was erected. But when it is under assault and enemy bombs are already taking their toll, what enervated, perverse antiquities do they not lay bare in the foundations.
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We must not let daylight in upon the magic.
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We talk on principal, but act on motivation.
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We think that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.
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What impresses men is not mind, but the result of mind.
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What is Mona Lisa thinking? Nothing, of course. Her blankness is her menace and our fear. Walter Pater is to call her a 'vampire,' coasting through history on her secret tasks.
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What is reading, but silent conversation.
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What we call a democratic society might be defined for certain purposes as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
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What we have to do is to be forever curiously testing new opinions and courting new impressions.
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When distant and unfamiliar and complex things are communicated to great masses of people, the truth suffers a considerable and often a radical distortion. The complex is made over into the simple, the hypothetical into the dogmatic, and the relative into an absolute.
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When great questions end, little parties begin.
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When men can no longer be theists, they must, if they are civilized, become humanists.
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When our knowing exceeds our sensing, we will no longer be deceived by the illusions of our senses.
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When philosophers try to be politicians they generally cease to be philosophers.
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When thinking about companions gone, we feel ourselves doubly alone.
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Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
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Who so desireth to know what will be hereafter, let him think of what is past, for the world hath ever been in a circular revolution; whatsoever is now, was heretofore; and things past or present, are no other than such as shall be again: Redit orbis in orbem.
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Who so taketh in hand to frame any state or government ought to presuppose that all men are evil, and at occasions will show themselves so to be.
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Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven.
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