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Brooks Atkinson

"It takes most men five years to recover from a college education, and to learn that poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge."

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"It takes most men five years to recover from a college education, and to learn that poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge."

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"Remembering that the man who always fights one more round is never whipped."

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"Dr. Johnson was a lazy learned man who liked to think and talk better than to read or write; who, however, wrote much and well, but too often by rote."

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"Only as an individual can man become a philosopher."

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"A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason."

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"A person like myself, born and raised in the inner city of Atlanta, Georgia, to lower-middle-class parents. But I had the opportunity to get an education, to go and earn a commission in the United States Army, to serve for 22 years, to lead men and women in combat."

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"Each man in his way is a treasure."

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"I think a man ought to get drunk at least twice a year just on principle, so he won't let himself get snotty about it."

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"When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package."

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"One should judge a man mainly from his depravities. Virtues can be faked. Depravities are real."

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