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For war to man, like childbirt...

For war to man, like childbirth to women, is simplifying in its emotions and activities. All the real problems of life can be put aside while the one thing is done and little thought is needed to do it. ... His hatreds can be expressed without censure, he can let his emotions run free, he can behave as dramatically, as heroically as he likes, and no one laughs at him. It is almost impossible for a man to behave heroically in the cool and ordinary times of peace. But in war anything is allowed him, he is praised and app

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There is, of course, a differe...

There is, of course, a difference between what one seizes and what one really possesses.

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What a man does in his own hou...

What a man does in his own house cannot concern the nation.

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A favorite means of escaping t...

A favorite means of escaping the solution to any problem is to declare it too complex for solution. This absolves us from attempting solution. ... Any problem is too complex to solve when we do not wish to accept the conditions of solution. Solution is possible where acceptance is ready.

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The main barrier between East ...

The main barrier between East and West today is that the white man is not willing to give up his superiority and the colored man is no longer willing to endure his inferiority.

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People don't care to read what...

People don't care to read what they already think or what any people think - they know all that well enough. They want to know what they ought to think.

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Religion was their meat and th...

Religion was their meat and their excitement, their mental food and their emotional pleasure.

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doing and being are very close...

doing and being are very closely tied together, and unless you are doing what you secretly want to do, you aren't able to be the sort of person you want to be.

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No daughter is ever her mother...

No daughter is ever her mother's darling. That spot is always reserved for the son.

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Iowans know themselves and wha...

Iowans know themselves and what they are doing. They are doing well.

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A foreigner is a friend I have...

A foreigner is a friend I have yet to meet.

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I learned to distinguish betwe...

I learned to distinguish between the two kinds of people in the world: those who have known inescapable sorrow and those who have not.

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there's two kinds of folk in t...

there's two kinds of folk in the world, just like there's two kinds of life in a seed. Something sends one kind up to hunt its food in the light and air, and sends the other kind down into the earth to make the roots.

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All in all, Vermont is a jewel...

All in all, Vermont is a jewel state, small but precious.

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Vermont is a country unto itse...

Vermont is a country unto itself.

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though some men did not make w...

though some men did not make war as others did, if they sold their goods for profit to the war-makers, did it make them better because the weapon was not in their own hands, if they had made the weapon and sold it and so put it into the hands of those used it upon the innocent?

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an artist is always seeking re...

an artist is always seeking revelation.

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The only real danger to our co...

The only real danger to our country is from within, that we forget our own power to be what we want to be.

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Love can never be a sin. It ca...

Love can never be a sin. It can be only a blessing. Even if you're not loved in return -- though I can't imagine that -- to love is a proof of life -- indeed, it's the only proof, for once you can't love another human being, you're not alive.

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I don't wait for moods - you'd...

I don't wait for moods - you'd never get anything done if you did.

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Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

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Актеры — люди творческие, но кто бы мог подумать, что некоторые из них скрывают прекрасный голос. В эпоху раннего Голливуда актеров с музыкальными способностями было немало — это считалось скорее норм...

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Расскажем, как сложилась судьба актеров, которые начинали сниматься еще в детстве.
Остаться на вершине в Голливуде удаётся не каждому, особенно если путь начался в детстве. Одни актёры теряются из-за...

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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....