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Lies that do not hurt, which are different from lies that protect oneself or hurt another person. That is not my business. But the truth is mostly very boring, and you can help it along with lies. There is no harm in that.

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I have often supported Israel, I have often visited the country and want the country to exist and at last find peace with its neighbours.

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Art is accusation, expression, passion. Art is a fight to the finish between black charcoal and white paper.

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I have heard my fill of hurtful words. I think it's especially egregious when citizens like me, who point out abuses in their country, are referred to as 'do-gooders.' This is how a phrase that can be used to stop an argument dead becomes part of common usage.

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Everyone is born into a certain era. I wouldn't want to see anyone faced with the circumstances that prevailed at the time, when there were few or no alternatives.

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In general, I agree with Jacob Grimm and feel that we ought to permit changes and uncontrolled growth in language. Even though that also allows potentially threatening new words to develop, language needs the chance to constantly renew itself.

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As a child I was a great liar. Fortunately my mother liked my lies. I promised her marvelous things.

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A well chosen anthology is a complete dispensary of medicine for the more common mental disorders, and may be used as much for prevention as cure.

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To be a poet is a condition rather than a profession.

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In love as in sport, the amateur status must be strictly maintained.

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One gets to the heart of the matter by a series of experiences in the same pattern, but in different colors.

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I shall be but a shrimp of an author.

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If the best man's faults were written on his forehead, he would draw his hat over his eyes.

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Alas, regardless of their doom, the little victims play! No sense have they of ills to come, nor care beyond today.

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He gave to misery (all he had) a tear.

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And weep the more, because I weep in vain.

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I know My God commands, whose power no power resists.

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Though men determine, the gods doo dispose: and oft times many things fall out betweene the cup and the lip.

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There cannot be any better cross-section of America and I think the soldiers represent the best we have. Today's soldiers are brighter and smarter, perhaps in a different way, than past generations because they've been brought up in the computer and information age.

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Just because I was almost 62, I did not feel decrepit and felt I wasn't finished being a soldier yet.

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