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When a man is one of a kind, he will be lonely wherever he is.
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Those whose approval you seek most give you the least.
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The city knows you better than any living person because it has seen you when you are alone,
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My mom was the breadwinner in my family. I always thought, That's how it is. I never thought that was the exception.
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He picked the postage stamp over the wall with aplomb.
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If a poet has any obligation toward society, it is to write well. Being in the minority, he has no other choice. Failing this duty, he sinks into oblivion. Society, on the other hand, has no obligation toward the poet. A majority by definition, society thinks of itself as having other options than reading verses, no matter how well written. Its failure to do so results in its sinking to that level of locution at which society falls easy prey to a demagogue or a tyrant. This is society's own equivalent of oblivion.
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Well now, Jack," Hastings said from the sidelines. "I'm afraid you've been beheaded. Not a good start." He sounded amused.
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The silly question is the first intimation of some totally new development.
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Transformation literally means going beyond your form.
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Everybody has a talent, but its what you do with that talent to make it great.
