In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!

Graham Greene

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Would the world be in the mess it is if we were loyal to love and not to countries?
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Country Love Loyalty World
I aim to be content with what I produce. It’s an aim I never achieve, but I go over my work word by word, time and again, so as to be as little dissatisfied as possible.
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Achievement Content Goal Myself Possible Production Satisfaction Time Work
It is a great danger for everyone when what is shocking changes.
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Change Dangerous Greatness
Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector.
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Better Lying Seek Truth
It was as though our love were a small creature caught in a trap and bleeding to death: I had to shut my eyes and wring its neck.
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Blood Creature Death Eyes Love
Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism.
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Bad Journalism Media Word
In the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship.
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Company Desire End
Her face looked ugly in the attempt to avoid tears; it was an ugliness which bound him to her more than any beauty could have done. It isn’t being happy together, he thought as though it were a fresh discovery, that makes one love–it’s being unhappy together.
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Avoid Beautiful Discover Face Happiness Love Tears Togetherness Ugly
Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be expansive, even reckless, while lie detectors are only a challenge to tell lies successfully.
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Challenge Lying Seek Success Truth
One has no talent. I have no talent. It’s just a question of working, of being willing to put in the time.
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Question Talent Time Willing Work
Beauty is like success: we can’t love it for long.
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Beautiful Love One Liner
They are always saying God loves us. If thats love I’d rather have a bit of kindness.
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God Kindness Love Myself
Of two hearts one is always warm and one is always cold: the cold heart is more precious than diamonds: the warm heart has no value and is thrown away.
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Cold Diamond Heart Oneself Precious Value Warmth
God save us always,’ I said ‘from the innocent and the good.
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God Goodness Innocence Save
The next best thing to talking to her is talking about her.
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Love Relationship Talk
Sweet are the thoughts that savor of content: the quiet mind is richer than a crown.
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Content Mindset Quiet Rich Thinking
It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.
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Impossible Life Oneself Prison Trust
We can love with our minds, but can we love only with our minds? Love extends itself all the time, so that we can love even with our senseless nails: we love even with our clothes, so that a sleeve can feel a sleeve.
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Clothes Love Mindset Ourselves Philosophy Time
Hate is an automatic response to fear, for fear humiliates.
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Fear Hate Humiliation Response
As long as one suffers one lives.
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Live Oneself Suffering
There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in…We should be thankful we cannot see the horrors and degradations lying around our childhood, in cupboards and bookshelves, everywhere.
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Book Childhood Future Moments Ourselves Thankful
Innocence is a kind of insanity.
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Innocence Kind One Liner Sanity
We are all of us resigned to death: it’s life we aren’t resigned to.
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Assignment Death Life
Reality in our century is not something to be faced.
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Face Generation Ourselves Reality
We never get accustomed to being less important to other people than they are to us.
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Important People Value Worth
It’s a good world if you don’t weaken.
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Goodness Weakness World Yourself
He entered the territory of lies without a passport for return.
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Himself Lying Return

In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!

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