"A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left."
-Alexander Pope
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"But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state?“
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"An honest man's the noblest work of God."
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"Never was it given to mortal man - To lie so boldly as we women can."
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"Tis but a part we see, and not a whole."
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"Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below."
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"And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in a masquerade."
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"There was a certain point in my life where I had to decide that I was going to take my future and Nicole's and not wallow in what happened to me because when you do that, you just keep repeating what's been happening and at some point you have to make a choice."
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"If we are to garner sustained U.S. domestic support for future trade agreements, we have to make sure those Americans who have suffered as a consequence of past agreements have an effective social safety net, adjustment assistance, opportunities for retraining and new job creation that enables all Americans to thrive."
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"And time itself? Time was a never-ending medium that stretched into the future and the past - except there was no future and no past, but an infinite number of brackets, extending either way, each bracket enclosing its single phase of the Universe."
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"The Nuclear Security Summit was President Obama's initiative born out of his vision to leave behind a safer, more prosperous world for the future generation."
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