The nation that complacently and fearfully allows its artists and writers to become suspected rather than respected is no longer regarded as a nation possessed with humor or depth.
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Next to reasoning, the greatest handicap to the optimum development of Man lies in the fact that this planet is just barely habitable. Its minimum temperatures are too low, and its maximum temperatures too high. Its day is not long enough, and its night is too long. The disposition of its water and earth is distinctly unfortunate (the existence of the Mediterranean Sea in the place where we find it is perhaps the unhappiest accident in the whole firmament). These factors encourage depression, fear, war, and lack of vitality. They describe a planet, which is by no means perfectly devised for the nurturing or for the perpetuation of a higher intelligence.James Thurber
A pinch of probability is worth a pound of perhaps.
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He is perceived to be a liability at this point, and it's not just what comes from this particular court case.
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Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it.
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There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.
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I thought once he was out, people would move on. But he is still there, concentrating power within the leadership and himself.
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