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Politeness makes one appear outwardly as they should be within. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

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To enlarge or illustrate this power and effect of love is to set a candle in the sun. ↗

— Robert Burton

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Marriage is distinctly and repeatedly excluded from heaven. Is this because it is thought likely to mar the general felicity? ↗

— Samuel Butler

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We have as many planes of speech as does a painting planes of perspective which create perspective in a phrase. The most important word stands out most vividly defined in the very foreground of the sound plane. Less important words create a series of deeper planes. ↗

— Constantin Stanislavski

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Anger may be kindled in the noblest breasts: but in these slow droppings of an unforgiving temper never takes the shape of consistency of enduring hatred. ↗

— M. Kathleen Casey

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It's very important to go back and keep in mind the distinction between handling these events as criminal acts, which was the way we did before 9/11, and then looking at 9/11 and saying, "This is not a criminal act," not when you destroy 16 acres of Manhattan, kill 3,000 Americans, blow a big hole in the Pentagon. That's an act of war. ↗

— Dick Cheney

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Iraq can emerge as a beacon of hope and democracy in the Middle East, and the world, with our help. ↗

— Chris Chocola

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One hardly saves a world without ruling it. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

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There is a curious relationship between a candidate and the reporters who cover him. It can be affected by small things like a competent press staff, enough seats, sandwiches and briefings and the ability to understand deadlines. ↗

— Ronald Steel

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I'm a disciple of Raymond Chandler, who said in his essays that there's a quality of redemption in anything that can be called art. ↗

— Michael Connelly

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