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The social damage was not in the failure but in the undertaking, which was expensive. The cost of war was the poison running through the 14th century.
Source: A Distant Mirror -
The society based on production is only productive, not creative.
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The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a deal longer.
Source: The Professor at the Breakfast Table (1859) Ch. XI -
The Soviet Union could not exist without the image of the empire. The image of the empire could not exist without the image of force. The USSR ended the moment the first hammer pounded the Berlin Wall.
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The Soviet Union was an exception, but even there chess players were not rich. Only Fischer changed that.
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The speaker does not feel the grammatical rules he is said to apply in composing sentences, and men spoke grammatically for thousands of years before anyone knew there were rules.
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The spirit is at home, if not entirely satisfied, in America.
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The spirit's foe in man has not been simplicity, but sophistication.
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The stage is life, music, beautiful girls, legs, breasts, not talk or intellectualism or dried-up academics.
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The stage is not merely the meeting place of all the arts, but is also the return of art to life.
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The state dinner is almost a formula, but you try to make it interesting. You try not to overload it with too many political types. You try to get a cross section.
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The State must follow, and not lead, the character and progress of the citizen.
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The state of monarchy is the supremest thing upon earth: for kings are not only God's Lieutenants upon earth, and sit upon God's throne, but even by God himself they are called Gods.
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The statesmen still say that we should not interfere in the internal affairs of other nations and yet it is not possible any longer not to interfere, even when we do not mean to do so.
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The stone is broken, but the words are alive.
Source: The Zookeepers Wife (2008) -
The stories are not autobiographical, but they're personal in that way. I seem to know only the things that I've learned. Probably some things through observation, but what I feel I know surely is personal.
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The stories are there first, and they come from my experiences wandering around in the world. They will resonate into bigger things, forces sweeping the planet, themes and archetypes, but I'm not smart enough to have lucid integration of all that in my head as I'm writing.
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The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
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The strange thing is that since I've been offered lots of films I think that maybe they think that I've sold out to Hollywood. Which is not the case if anybody's listening.
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The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.
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