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Quote by Marcel Proust
Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing

Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way. – Marcel Proust

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Illness is the most heeded of doctors: to goodness and wisdom we only make promises; pain we obey. – Marcel Proust

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If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time. – Marcel Proust

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Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees. – Marcel Proust

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The assumption is that the right kind of society is an organic being not merely analogous to an organic being, but actually a living structure with appetites and digestions, instincts and passions, intelligence and reason. – Herbert Read

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Human folk are as a matter of fact eager to find intelligence in animals. – Edward Thorndike

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When I resigned, I put the U.S. Government on notice that Im going to stick to policy issues, that I have no intention of going out and blowing the cover off of the intelligence operations, that those are truly sensitive and they should not be exposed. – Scott Ritter

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As a member of the House Select Committee on Intelligence, I will be participating in several hearings on the startling revelations contained in the report. – Charles Foster Bass

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My first three years of high school, I wasnt that cool. – Jonathan Bennett

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There are some women whose pregnancy would make some sly bachelor smile. – Honore de Balzac

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