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"What we earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are."
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"Well, I suppose that, in a sense, every screen role is a favourite with me."

"A word to the wise is not sufficient if it doesn't make sense."

"So in one sense you don't have the classic keyboard player in Yes."

"I carried out my orders until arrested. I had no sense that I was spying, and I ask that this be taken into account in deciding my verdict."

"The calling of the humanities is to make us truly human in the best sense of the word."

"And the camera position, the organization, looking for repeating forms, shapes, trying to set up a visual rhythm seemed to come very natural. All of a sudden I was in a forest of aluminum and steel rather than a forest that we might think of in a traditional sense."

"In this tour around the world I was not interested in contemporary buildings because I had seen contemporary buildings actually until they came out of my ears in a sense."

"It was a scene in the sense that we were all close and we all knew each other before the different bands had really formed. We used to rehearse in the same place."

"A poem conveys not a message so much as the provenance of a message, an advent of sense."
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"Conversation may be compared to a lyre with seven chords - philosophy, art, poetry, love, scandal, and the weather."

"In morals what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness; in religion what begins in fear usually ends in fanaticism. Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil."

"What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are. The mere aspiration, by changing the frame of the mind, for the moment realizes itself."

"All my experience of the world teaches me that in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, the safe and just side of a question is the generous and merciful side."

"We can sometimes love what we do not understand, but it is impossible completely to understand what we do not love."
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