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Heart endures when eye does not see. (Meaning: One can endure being far away from loved ones by not seeing them.)
Many will point to the right way after the wheel is broken. (Used to make a point about second guessing after the outcome is known.)
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Thomas L. Friedman, fully Thomas Lauren Friedman
No policy is sustainable without a public that broadly understands why it's necessary and sees the world the way you do...
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Woodrow Wilson, fully Thomas Woodrow Wilson
America lives in the heart of every man everywhere who wishes to find a region where he will be free to work out his destiny as he chooses.
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Woodrow Wilson, fully Thomas Woodrow Wilson
I have a sense of power in dealing with men collectively which I do not always feel in dealing with them singly... One feels no sacrifice of pride necessary in courting the favor of an assembly of men such as he would have to make in seeking to please one man.
Timothy Leary, fully Timothy Francis Leary
Art's certainly made a lot of money, and got on a lot of shows — he got himself into the Nixon White House riding on the death of his daughter. And I think that's ghoulish! That's ghoulish.
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The father may well be a horse, but it's most likely that the son will be a mule.
Tom Robbins, fully Thomas Eugene "Tom" Robbins
All animals copulate but only humans osculate. Parakeets rub beaks? Sure they do, but only little old ladies who murder schoolchildren with knitting needles to steal their lunch money so that they can buy fresh kidneys to feed overweight kitty cats would place bird billing in the realm of the true kiss.
Tom Robbins, fully Thomas Eugene "Tom" Robbins
If you're honest, you sooner or later have to confront your values. Then you're forced to separate what is right from what is merely legal. This puts you metaphysically on the run. America is full of metaphysical outlaws.
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Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon, who is already sick and pale with grief that thou her maid art far more fair than she. Be not her maid, since she is envious. Her vestal livery is but sick and green, and none but fools do wear it. Cast it off.
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As for a camel to thread the postern of a small needle's eye. King Richard II. Act v. Sc. 5.
And since you know you cannot see yourself, so well as by reflection, I, your glass, will modestly discover to yourself, that of yourself which you yet know not of. Julius Caeasar, Act I, Scene 2
But now I am cabined, cribbed, confined, bound in to saucy doubts and fears. Macbeth, Act iii, Scene 4
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In my individual heart I fully believe my faith is as robust as yours. The trouble with your robust and full bodied faiths, however, is, that they begin to cut eachothers’ throats too soon, and for getting on in the world and establishing amodus vivendi these pestilential refinements and reasonablenesses and moderations have to creep in.
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Plasticity, then, in the wide sense of the word, means the possession of a structure weak enough to yield to an influence, but strong enough not to yield all at once. Each relatively stable phase of equilibrium in such a structure is marked by what we may call a new set of habits. Organic matter, especially nervous tissue, seems endowed with a very extraordinary degree of plasticity of this sort ; so that we may without hesitation lay down as our first proposition the following, that the phenomena of habit in living beings are due to plasticity of the organic materials of which their bodies are composed.