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Democracy is the theory that the common people know what They want, and deserve to get it good and hard.
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Discontent follows ambition like a shadow.
Meditations in Wall Street (1940) p. 135 -
Don't find fault, find a remedy.
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Even the best things are not equal to their fame.
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Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.
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Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.
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Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.
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For other nations, utopia is a blessed past never to be recovered; for Americans it is just beyond the horizon.
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Have you ever watched a crab on the shore crawling backward in search of the Atlantic Ocean, and missing? That's the way the mind of man operates.
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He who hunts for flowers will finds flowers; and he who loves weeds will find weeds.
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He who is only a traveler learns things at second-hand and by the halves, and is poor authority. We are most interested when science reports what those men already know practically or instinctively, for that alone is a true humanity, or account of human experience.
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How earthy old people become, moldy as the grave! Their wisdom smacks of the earth. There is no foretaste of immortality in it. They remind me of earthworms and mole crickets.
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How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
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I am sorry to think that you do not get a man's most effective criticism until you provoke him. Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness.
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I do not know how to distinguish between our waking life and a dream. Are we not always living the life that we imagine we are?
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I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
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I have lived some thirty-odd years on this planet, and I have yet to hear the first syllable of valuable or even earnest advice from my seniors.
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I have no doubt that it is a part of the destiny of the human race, in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals, as surely as the savage tribes have left off eating each other when they came in contact with the more civilized.
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I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
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I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well.
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