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Intuition is the supra-logic that cuts out all the routine processes of thought and leaps straight from the problem to the answer.
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The award of a pure gold medal for poetry would flatter the recipient unduly: no poem ever attains such carat purity.
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The butterfly, a cabbage-white, (His honest idiocy of flight) Will never now, it is too late, Master the art of flying straight.
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There is one story and one story only.
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Before an attack, the platoon pools all its available cash and the survivors divide it up afterwards. Those who are killed can't…
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The old lady told me that all the girls in the village of Annezin prayed every night for the War to end,…
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We once discussed which were the cleanest troops in the trenches, taken by nationalities. We agreed on a descending-order like this: English…
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The gas-cylinders had by this time been put into position on the front line. A special order came round imposing severe penalties…
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No honest theologian therefore can deny that his acceptance of Jesus as Christ logically binds every Christian to a belief in reincarnation…
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Marriage, like money, is still with us; and, like money, progressively devalued.
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To recommend a monarchy on account of the prosperity it gives the provinces seems to me like recommending that a man should…
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Faults in English prose derive not so much from lack of knowledge, intelligence or art as from lack of thought, patience or…
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The award of a pure gold medal for poetry would flatter the recipient unduly: no poem ever attains such carat purity.
— Robert Graves
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She is mine own, And I as rich in having such a jewel As twenty seas, if all their sand were pearl,…
— William Shakespeare
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Pure truth, like pure gold, has been found unfit for circulation because men have discovered that it is far more convenient to…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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To express the most difficult matters clearly and intelligently, is to strike coins out of pure gold.
— Unknown Author
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Conflict is the alchemical soup that transforms raw emotion and instinct into pure gold.
— Harville Hendrix
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You lack a foot to travel? Then journey into yourself - that leads to transformation of dust into pure gold.
— Rumi
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Satan promises the best, but pays with the worst; he promises honor, and pays with disgrace; he promises pleasure, and pays with…
— Thomas Brooks
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It must have been providence that directed Joel Morwood to dig in the right place, for he struck a lode of pure…
— Huston Smith
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DREAM PREDICTION ELITE is the realization of true amazement in your audiences reactions. This is PURE GOLD - A REAL WINNER
— Banachek
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Time is so old and love so brief, love is pure gold and time a thief. We're late, darling, we're late, The…
— Ogden Nash
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It is from the midst of this putrid sewer that the greatest river of human industry springs up and carries fertility to…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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In an archery contest, when the stakes are earthenware tiles a contestant shoots with skill. When the stakes are belt buckles he…
— Zhuangzi
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