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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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Grandparents who want to be truly helpful will do well to keep their mouths shut and their opinions to themselves until these…
— T. Berry Brazelton
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It is not a lucky word, this name impossible; no good comes of those who have it so often in their mouths.
— Thomas Carlyle
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When envoys are sent with compliments in their mouths, it is a sign that the enemy wishes for a truce.
— Sun Tzu
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When envoys are sent with compliments in their mouths, it is a sign that the enemy wishes for a truce. If the…
— Sun Tzu
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It was the spirit of the workers that was dangerous. The tired, gray crowds ebbing and flowing perpetually into the mills had…
— Mary Heaton Vorse
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O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou has no name to be known by, let us call thee devil....O God, that…
— William Shakespeare
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It is well-known that those who have charge of young infants, that it is difficult to feel sure when certain movements about…
— Charles Darwin
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They never open their mouths without subtracting from the sum of human knowledge.
— Thomas Reed
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What signifies, says some one, giving halfpence to beggars? they only lay it out in gin or tobacco. "And why should they…
— Hester Lynch Piozzi
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Not everybody, however, has a genuine sense of humor. That calls for an altruistic detachment from oneself and a mysterious sympathy with…
— Karl Rahner
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You are most powerful when you are most silent. People never expect silence. They expect words, motion, defense, offense, back and forth.…
— Alison McGhee
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The best way to reveal a character is to get them to open their mouths.
— Roddy Doyle
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