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A people numerically large may attain to ways of thought and enterprise that no political censure can reduce to a minimum; but under narrower conditions, it may easily come about that the whole people will fall asleep.
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A perfectly healthy sentence, it is true, is extremely rare. For the most part we miss the hue and fragrance of the thought; as if we could be satisfied with the dews of the morning or evening without their colors, or the heavens without their azure.
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A person may dwell so long upon a thought that it may take him a prisoner.
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A poor man who eats too much, as contradistinguished from a gourmand, who is a rich man who ''lives well.''
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A powerful agent is the right word. Whenever we come upon one of those intensely right words... the resulting effect is physical as well as spiritual, and electrically prompt.
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A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment.
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A public opinion poll is no substitute for thought.
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A racing tipster who only reached Hitler's level of accuracy would not do well for his clients.
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A Roman divorced from his wife, being highly blamed by his friends, who demanded, ''Was she not chaste? Was she not fair? Was she not fruitful?'' holding out his shoe, asked them whether it was not new and well made. ''Yet,'' added he, ''none of you can tell where it pinches me.
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A self made man is a rarity and hated by the parasites that floated to fame thought their parents, relatives and contacts.
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A show that no one thought had a chance has just finished its fifth year: Charmed. I think it's tougher for the younger networks, so I think they have a little more patience for the sake of the show. But who knows?
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A simple grateful thought turned heavenwards is the most perfect prayer.
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A single idea - the sudden flash of a thought - may be worth a million dollars.
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A single word even may be a spark of inextinguishable thought.
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A society made up of individuals who were all capable of original thought would probably be unendurable.
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A State can sue for negligence as well as fraud damages.
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A strict belief, fate is the worst kind of slavery; on the other hand there is comfort in the thought that God will be moved by our prayers.
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A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of.
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A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.
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