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"What we earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are."
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"The programme has ended, something has finished, and he has a sense of something having finished its course, and then all of a sudden he turns away and this other thing has just finished its course, this other person."

"When you stand on the stage you must have a sense that you are addressing the whole world, and that what you say is so important the whole world must listen."

"Commonsense is the realised sense of proportion."

"So, in a sense, the verification piece is irrelevant to the format issue."

"I do read everything that we publish. We usually have to have two or three votes for a book before we take it on. So in that sense I suppose it is an orchestra."

"A poem conveys not a message so much as the provenance of a message, an advent of sense."

"All things make sense; you just have to fathom how they make sense."

"In the broad and sweeping sense which the use of the term generally implies, I am not a free-trader."
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"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."

"Conversation may be compared to a lyre with seven chords - philosophy, art, poetry, love, scandal, and the weather."
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