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A considerable number of persons are able to protect themselves against the outbreak of serious neurotic phenomena only through intense work. ↗

— Karl Abraham

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A company is only as good as the people it keeps. ↗

— Mary Kay Ash

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My earliest memory is dreamlike: in a small orchard or garden I am carried on the arm, I believe, of my father; there was a group of grown-ups, my mother among them, and the group was slowly walking in the orchard, it seems toward the house. ↗

— Immanuel Velikovsky

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There are twin Gates of Sleep. One, they say, is called the Gate of Horn and it offers easy passage to all true shades. The other glistens with ivory, radiant, flawless, but through it the dead send false dreams up toward the sky. And here Anchises, his vision told in full, escorts his son and Sibyl both and shows them out now through the Ivory Gate. ↗

— Virgil

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I still owe a duty of loyalty to my clients and former clients, so I cannot specify which clients I did not especially find congenial, but the cause was the same. ↗

— Floyd Abrams

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'Star Trek' was always a little bit closed emotionally. I never connected to the characters. ↗

— J. J. Abrams

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You never want to have that ticking clock and know that you had all this time and didn't use it. ↗

— J. J. Abrams

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Now the truth is, a president really can't control the economy, although his policies do have some effect on it. ↗

— Paul Weyrich

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Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret. ↗

— Diane Ackerman

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Far from being the product of a democratic revolution and of an opposition to English institutions, the constitution of the United States was the result of a powerful reaction against democracy, and in favor of the traditions of the mother country. ↗

— John Acton

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