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Youth is ever apt to judge in haste, and lose the medium in the wild extreme.

~Aaron Hill

Topics: Apt Ever Extreme Haste Judge Lose Medium Wild Youth

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I kind of tried my hand at sports and school, and I wasn't very apt at either one of those things.

~Anderson East

Topics: Apt Either Hand Kind School Sports Things Those Tried Very

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The processes of teaching the child that everything cannot be as he wills it are apt to be painful both to him and to his teacher.

~Anne Sullivan

Topics: Apt Both Cannot Child Everything He Him His Painful Processes Teacher Teaching Wills

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In America journalism is apt to be regarded as an extension of history: in Britain, as an extension of conversation.

~Anthony Sampson

Topics: America Apt Britain Conversation Extension History Journalism Regarded

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The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness.

~Aristotle

Topics: Apt Because Brings Evil Fear Men Naturally Own Punishment Rather Refrain Reverence Swayed Than

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This is the reality of intensive care: at any point, we are as apt to harm as we are to heal.

~Atul Gawande

Topics: Any Apt Care Harm Heal Intensive Point Reality

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Since the generality of persons act from impulse, much more than from principle, men are neither so good nor so bad as we are apt to think them.

~Augustus Hare

Topics: Act Apt Bad Good Impulse Men More Much Neither Nor Persons Principle Since Than Them Think

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The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.

~B. C. Forbes

Topics: Apt Bargain Mutual Only Repeated Satisfaction Yields

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A man nearly always loves for other reasons than he thinks. A lover is apt to be as full of secrets from himself as is the object of his love from him.

~Ben Hecht

Topics: Always Apt Full He Him Himself His Love Lover Loves Man Nearly Object Other Reasons Secrets Than Thinks

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I have never entered into any controversy in defense of my philosophical opinions; I leave them to take their chance in the world. If they are right, truth and experience will support them; if wrong, they ought to be refuted and rejected. Disputes are apt to sour one's temper and disturb one's quiet.

~Benjamin Franklin

Topics: Any Apt Chance Controversy Defense Disputes Disturb Entered Experience Leave Never Opinions Ought Philosophical Quiet Rejected Right Sour Support Take Temper Them Truth Will World Wrong

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