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"Last season when things weren't working out, I thought we needed a different voice around the place."
"But I never, never thought of the ministry nor did - of course, television when I was growing up, there was no television. So I didn't know anything about it."
"We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them."
"Wicked thoughts and worthless efforts gradually set their mark on the face, especially the eyes."
"I've been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library."
"Nothing requires a greater effort of thought than arguments to justify the rule of non-thought."
"...It expands; it only destroys because it broadens; even so, thought only destroys because it broadens. A man's brain is a bomb," he cried out, loosening suddenly his strange passion and striking his own skull with violence. "My brain feels like a bomb, night and day. It must expand! It must expand! A man's brain must expand, if it breaks up the universe."
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"I do not admire politicians; but when they are excellent in their way, one cannot help allowing them their due."
"Men are often capable of greater things than they perform - They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent."
"Justice is rather the activity of truth, than a virtue in itself. Truth tells us what is due to others, and justice renders that due. Injustice is acting a lie."
"Alexander at the head of the world never tasted the true pleasure that boys of his own age have enjoyed at the head of a school."
"How well Shakespeare knew how to improve and exalt little circumstances, when he borrowed them from circumstantial or vulgar historians."
"By deafness one gains in one respect more than one loses; one misses more nonsense than sense."
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