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A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.
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A cynic is a man who looks at the world with a monocle in his mind's eye.
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A different world cannot be built by indifferent people.
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A faith is something you die for, a doctrine is something you kill for. There is all the difference in the world.
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A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.
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A genocide in Africa has not received the same attention that genocide in Europe or genocide in Turkey or genocide in other part of the world. There is still this kind of basic discrimination against the African people and the African problems.
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A gentleman opposed to their enfranchisement once said to me, women have never produced anything of any value to the world. I told him the chief product of the women had been the men, and left it to him to decide whether the product was of any value.
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A good face they say, is a letter of recommendation. O Nature, Nature, why art thou so dishonest, as ever to send men with these false recommendations into the World!
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A good heart is better than all the heads in the world.
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A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.
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A great deal of talent is lost in the world for want of courage.
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A great idea is usually original to more than one discoverer. Great ideas come when the world needs them. Great ideas surround the world's ignorance and press for admission.
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A great number of the disappointments and mishaps of the troubled world are the direct result of literature and the allied arts. It is our belief that no human being who devotes his life and energy to the manufacture of fantasies can be anything but fundamentally inadequate
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A great writer creates a world of his own and his readers are proud to live in it. A lesser writer may entice them in for a moment, but soon he will watch them filing out.
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A large part of the problem, is that young people are being born into the world and growing up without much hope. And so, they become murderers, they become suicide bombers.
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A Librettist is a mere drudge in the world of opera.
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A lie can run around the world six times while the truth is still trying to put on its pants.
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A lie should be tried in a place where it will attract the attention of the world.
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A little grit in the eye destroyeth the sight of the very heavens, and a little malice or envy a world of joys. One wry principle in the mind is of infinite consequence.
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A little of what you call frippery is very necessary towards looking like the rest of the world.
Letter to John Adams (1 May 1780)
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