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If you never ask yourself any questions about the meaning of a passage, you cannot expect the book to give you any insight you do not already possess. ↗

— Mortimer Adler

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Many human beings say that they enjoy the winter, but what they really enjoy is feeling proof against it. ↗

— Richard Adams

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Remind people that profit is the difference between revenue and expense. This makes you look smart. ↗

— Scott Adams

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When times are bad, the gloves come off and employers are less nice. People become disposable. ↗

— Scott Adams

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Irregularity and want of method are only supportable in men of great learning or genius, who are often too full to be exact, and therefore they choose to throw down their pearls in heaps before the reader, rather than be at the pains of stringing them. ↗

— Joseph Addison

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Nothing defines the quality of life in a community more clearly than people who regard themselves, or whom the consensus chooses to regard, as mentally unwell. ↗

— Renata Adler

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I keep telling myself to calm down, to take less of an interest in things and not to get so excited, but I still care a lot about liberty, freedom of speech and expression, and fairness in journalism. ↗

— Kate Adie

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Passion is all but soft, it's not tender, it's violence to which you get hooked by pleasure. ↗

— Isabelle Adjani

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A simple rule in dealing with those who are hard to get along with is to remember that this person is striving to assert his superiority; and you must deal with him from that point of view. ↗

— Alfred Adler

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The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, with the truth. ↗

— Alfred Adler

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