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I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we…
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Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what…
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Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us,…
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There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and…
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Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war;…
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I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to…
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Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a…
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You have to steer a course between not appalling people, but at the same time not misleading them.
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Violence against women is an appalling human rights violation. But it is not inevitable. We can put a stop to this.
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One in three women may suffer from abuse and violence in her lifetime. This is an appalling human rights violation, yet it…
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The writer's greed is appalling. He wants, or seems to want, everything and practically everybody, in another sense, and at the same…
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My school reports always used to point out that my concentration levels were appalling. I never listened in class because I was…
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The appalling thing about war is that it kills all love of truth.
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Someone must show that the Afro-American race is more sinned against than sinning, and it seems to have fallen to me to…
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From a wine critic's perspective, there are far too many innocuous, over-oaked, over-acidified, or over-cropped wines emerging from California. While those sins…
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